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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: OLIN D. JOHNSTON, THE NEW DEAL AND THE POLITICS OF CLASS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, 1934-1938 Abstract: The dissertation uses the 1935-1939 gubernatorial administration of Olin D. Johnston to illuminate the socio-political atmosphere in South Carolina during the New Deal era. Born into the South Carolina lower white class as the son of upcountry tenant farmers and mill workers in 1896, Johnston acquired a political heritage based on a post-Reconstruction social hierarchy which simultaneously emphasized white unity as the key to maintaining black submission and white disparity as the key to preserving the social dominance of the white elite. Ironically, as a young man, Johnston became the beneficiary of a certain progressive sector of the conservative elite which favored the promotion of white unity at the expense of white disparity by encouraging the education of mill operatives in order to hasten the assimilation of the mill population into the established conservative society. Johnston's education boosted him into a political career by his late twenties, and in 1934, he became the state's governor. |
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