Sen. Fritz Hollings: SC Democrat led fight against 1960's lunch counter integration

various newspaper archives | 12/23/02 | myself

[Tribune7]

Today's WSJ has a great editiorial concerning Robert "White Ni@@er" Bryd's history as a Klan Kleagle. They quote him as recommending in 1997 that young people don't join the Klan because it will be an "albatross." The guy really has a way of expressing remorse.

Bryd is the only senator to have voted against Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas as SC justices. Wonder what those two had in common?

And always, always note that Bryd was not just a Klan Kleage; not just a Dem pol from some podunk town; but the man elected by his fellow Dem senators to lead them in the Senate through the 1980s.

[jwalsh07]

Doesn't Hollings also have something to do with the Confederate Flag flying on the SC state capitol?

Yup, he put there when he was Governor.

[RippleFire]

BUMP

[plain talk]

Well you didn't read correctly. You obviously need the read the whole article all over again.

[Southack]

Christine S. McCreary

Preface

by Donald A. Ritchie

In her 45 years of service on Capitol Hill, Christine S. McCreary saw great

changes in both the Senate and in Washington, D.C. Born in New York City in

1926, Christine Stewart was a student at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona

Beach, Florida, when the United States entered World War II and the federal

government put out a call for civilian employees to staff the many new wartime

agencies. She passed the typing test and immediately left for Washington.

Although still a segregated city, the capital offered exciting challenges and

opportunities for a young African American woman.

Beginning at the Office of Price Administration, she moved to the Federal

Security Administration. One day while working in the FSA typing pool, Stewart

was called to take dictation for an official whose secretary was out sick. The

official, Stuart Symington, was so impressed with her work that took her along

when he became chairman of the National Security Board and director of the

Reconstruction Finance Corporation. She served as administrative assistant to

Symington's assistant, George L. P. Weaver. In 1952 Symington won election to

the United States Senate from Missouri as a Democrat, and offered her a position

on his Senate staff. She accepted, but waited until after the birth of her son. She

had married Rivers D. McCreary, then a railroad postal clerk in Washington and

a musician. They had two sons, Rivers and James.

Very few African Americans held professional positions in the Senate in 1953.

Jesse Nichols had become the government documents librarian for the Senate

Finance Committee in 1937, and Marguerite Ingram became the first black

secretary when she joined the staff of Senator Paul Douglas, an Illinois Democrat,

in 1949. By 1953 the Senate restaurant in the Capitol and the staff cafeteria in the

Senate Office Building remained unofficially segregated. Although most of the

kitchen staff, waiters and cafeteria workers were black, the patrons were

exclusively white. Christine McCreary was among the first to challenge this de

facto segregation by dining regularly in the staff cafeteria.

McCreary remained on Senator Symington's staff until his retirement in 1977.

She then joined the office of Senator John Glenn, Democrat of Ohio, who was

serving in his first term. McCreary retired from the Senate in 1998 at the end of

Senator Glenn's fourth term, when he chose not to run for reelection. During her

nearly half century on Capitol Hill she saw size of each senator's personal staff

multiply. When she began the entire Senate staff worked out of one Senate Office

Building. By the time she retired, three office buildings accommodating a staff

that had increased seven fold. During those years she moved from the Old Senate

Office Building (later named the Richard Russell Building) with its mahogany

United States Senate Historical Office -- Oral History Project

www.senate.gov

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doors, crystal chandeliers, and marble fire places, to the newest building (named

for Senator Philip A. Hart), with its duplex office suites, computer terminals, and

satellite dishes for instant communications. The staff of the Senate also became

more racially integrated, as did the Senate floor with the elections of Senator

Edward W. Brooke, a Republican of Massachusetts, and Carol Moseley-Braun, a

Democrat of Illinois.

About the Interviewer

: Donald A. Ritchie is associate historian of the Senate

Historical Office. A graduate of C.C.N.Y., he received his Ph.D. in history from the

University of Maryland. His article on "Oral History in the Federal Government,"

appeared in the Journal of American History. His books include

James M.

Landis: Dean of the Regulators

(Harvard Press, 1980),

Press Gallery, Congress

and the Washington Correspondents

(Harvard Press, 1991), and

History of a

Free Nation

(Glencoe, 1998). He also edits the

Executive Sessions of the Senate

Foreign Relations Committee (Historical Series)

(Government Printing Office).

A former president of the Oral History Association and of Oral History in the

Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR), he received OHMAR's Forrest C. Pogue Award

for distinguished contributions to the field of oral history.

United States Senate Historical Office -- Oral History Project

www.senate.gov

[TBP]

Hollings is the guy who put the confederate flag on teh South Carolina Statehouse.

At least the segregationists were open and above board about their desire to keep blacks down. Liberals aren't. Yet they continue to fight for policies that do nothing but keep minorities down and dependent and they fight tooth and nail to maintain that intolerable, racist situation.

[Tempest]

Errr.... that's nice and all but do you have any links to show these accusations in a clearer light?

I'd like to believe you, but it's all hearsay at this point. Even though you say that they're from the NYT's.

[wardaddy]

Wonder what those two had in common?

Not much besides race thankfully.

[Bonaparte]

Send this to the WSJ editorial desk. They denounced Robert Byrd today.

[Tribune7]

Exactly!

Their ideologies are 180 degrees apart. Marshall was an ultra-liberal activist. Thomas is a , legislation-respecting constitutionalist.

Byrd -- who has led the Klan and the Demoractic senate -- wasn't basing his votes on political viewpoints.

Byrd is a racist and the Democratic Party is a racist institution for making him their leader.

[PJ-Comix]

...Ross Barnett of Mississippi...

That guy was a segregationist's segregationist. Downright nasty fellow. I've seen newreel clips of him. Oh, and a Demmycrat.

[Phantom Lord]

When will the major media start carrying this?

Ah, never. Hollings is a RAT. They get a total pass.

How long would any elected member of the GOP last if he used the word nigger in a nationaly televised interview?

[Don Corleone]

The issue with Trent Lott is that he appeared to be pining for those days.

Trent Lott along with a host of others was a Dixiecrat in those days. Notice the word Dixie CRAT an off shoot of the Democrat party.

[Kay Soze]

Clintons flew the Arkansas State Flag with the star of the Confederacy on it as well as all state documents and emblems.

It was done to intimidate blacks from voting.

Bill and Hillary were five time governors of Arkansas and never once made any attempt to remove the star of the confederacy from the State flag and documents.

Clintons fought the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the NAACP had to sue the Bill Clinton for enforcement.

Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton are segregationist and racist in word and action.

[rdb3]

Now there's some history one doesn't get to see everyday. Thanx a bunch.

Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.

[Southack]

The press doesn't mention that the Senate cafeteria was segregated until 1953, at least, they don't mention it very often or very loudly.

[FreeReign]

When will the major media start carrying this?

...also, when will the many posters on the Lott threads start posting here on THIS!

[FreeReign]

Hollings also made derogatory references to an African delegation at a 1993 international conference, suggesting they were cannibals.

A whole lota flesh eatin going on around heeare!

[Kay Soze]

no kidding!

The Lott issue is more of a grudge match than in exposing what Dems do.

[timestax]

It's all coming out now!!