Movatterモバイル変換

SC Governors – Ernest Frederick Hollings, 1959-1963

Governor Ernest Frederick Hollings

Also see:SC Government

Ernest Frederick Hollings
Courtesy ofSouth Carolina Legislative Manual

1959 – The press dubbed the 1959 session of the General Assembly the "Industrial Session" due to the amount of business legislation passed.
January 1, 1960 – After baseball player Jackie Robinson was threatened with arrest for entering a white waiting room at the Greenville airport, blacks marched from the Springfield Baptist Church to the airport to protest the segregated waiting rooms in the state's first modern civil rights demonstration.
February 12, 1960 – Approximately 100 black students from Friendship Junior College in Rock Hill staged the state's first sit-ins at the lunch counters of Woolworth's and McCrory's.
March 2, 1961 – Civil rights demonstrators marched to the state capitol to protest segregation.
May 15, 1961 – The findings of a joint study committee on education appointed by Governor Hollings resulted in a legislative charter that initiated the state'stechnical education system.
February 14, 1962 – The state House of Representatives drafted a resolution requesting that the Confederate flag be flown on the flag pole on top of the State House.
Summer, 1962 – Our Lady of Mercy Junior College (a now-defunct private Catholic junior college on Legare Street in Charleston) admitted ten African-American students. It was the first historically-white college in South Carolina toadmit black people.

1963-1966 – After leaving office, Hollings returned to his law practice until being elected to the US Senate


Hollings was elected without opposition, receiving 77,714 votes.

MOST POPULAR

ALL CATEGORIES

SCIWAY . . ."sky-way" . . .SouthCarolina's Information HighWAY

© 2026 SCIWAY.net, LLC All rights reserved.