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Hollings makes a grand gesture to Charleston — and American — history
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Mar 15, 2015 01:43pm |
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| Author | Brian Hicks |
| News Date | Sunday, March 15, 2015 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Fritz Hollings was barely out of law school when he first crossed paths with U.S. District Judge Julius Waties Waring.
This was Charleston of the late 1940s, and already the judge was a controversial figure. Shunned by society for divorcing his wife and marrying a Yankee woman, Waring was quickly gaining a reputation as a jurist out of step with South Carolina values.
He had stopped the Democratic Party from closing its primaries to black voters, worked to equalize pay between black and white teachers, and even hired African-Americans to work in his courtroom.
Most lawyers — most people — despised Waring. Many of the state’s politicians wanted him impeached. But Hollings admired the judge.
“He was damned nice to me,” Hollings says. “He made sure young lawyers weren’t bumfuzzled or run over by the senior lawyers.”
Defying his critics, Waring kept pushing the city, and the state, into the 20th century. In 1951, he manipulated the judicial system to force the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a ruling on segregation. He wrote the dissent that became the basis for the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education. |
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