An August 12, 1965 announcement from South Carolina Governor Robert McNair saying that the state would not enforce the Voting Rights Act.

Governor of South Carolina from 1965 to 1971, McNair was in office during the 1968 Orangeburg massacre, in which three civil rights demonstrators were killed when police officers opened fire at South Carolina State University.

Citation Information
McNair, Robert E., “Statement on Voting Rights Law and Registrars,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/d31cf75ab48b94232a5d155712dedbb2.
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Courtesy of University of South Carolina, South Carolina Political Collections via South Carolina Digital Library.

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