Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South

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  • Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South
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    A graduate of the University of North Carolina , Sanford served briefly as a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation before joining the U. After the war he returned to Chapel Hill where he completed a law degree in and served as assistant director of the Institute of Government for two years. In he married a college classmate, Margaret Rose Knight of Hopkinsville, Kentucky; they would have two children.

    With the establishment of a law practice in Fayetteville , Sanford remained active in the National Guard through A Methodist, he was the first trustee chairman of Methodist College. In he was elected to a single term in the State Senate. Scott died in ; Sanford had the support of his organization in the bid for governor in The field of four candidates for the Democratic nomination was reduced to two after the first primary. Beverly Lake, the remaining contender and a former assistant attorney general, campaigned largely on a segregationist platform.

    Sanford defeated Lake in the runoff and Republican Robert L. Gavin in the fall.

    Triumph of Good Will: How Terry Sanford Beat a Champion of Segregation and Reshaped the South

    Sanford stumped the state on behalf of the proposals and the General Assembly approved the measures. Sanford in created the North Carolina Fund, with Ford Foundation and other private money, to combat poverty. During his term the legislature underwent reapportionment and the court system was reformed. He promoted food processing industries as a way to boost agriculture. After his term as governor Sanford led a two-year study, based at Duke University, into the role of state governments. Outlive your enemies by Terry Sanford Book 3 editions published in in English and held by 45 WorldCat member libraries worldwide.

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    Institute of the States: In that day of Jim Crow the voting black population was quite small and the white prejudice still dominant. Unable to rebound from libelous attacks, Graham lost the runoff to a campaign founded on fear. It was an important moment for Sanford, he said from that day forward that he would never again let such tactics go unanswered. Terry Sanford was a man of incredible ambition.

    Even in law school in his early 20s he had already decided that he would be Governor of North Carolina one day. After graduating from UNC's law school he chose where to live and work all with an eye towards an eventual race for the governor's office. Ambition is, of course, not always a bad thing. In fact, ambition combined with good intentions is a noble and necessary part of the American political landscape.

    Sanford, Terry 1917-1998

    Terry Sanford was one of those people to whom we should be thankful for his ambition. Drescher spends the majority of the book on the Governor's race in between I. Beverly Lake and Sanford. Lake had worked for the State Attorney General's office and had argued against integration 3 separate times in front of the Supreme Court.

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    Sanford, on the other hand, was a silent supporter of African American civil rights. As the campaigns started the Greensboro 4 began what would be the first in a long line of sit-ins for the equal treatment of African American citizens.

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    Sanford was a good man and a great politician. His greatness was rooted in his recognition that to voice his liberal position on Brown v.

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    Drescher accurately points out, however, that many modern day observers consider Stanford's rejection of integration and moderate stand on the issue during the campaign as a failure of character and a disappointment to African Americans. But what those observers mistake for cowardice was, in fact, an act of necessary political savvy. The truth is that Sanford knew well that endorsement of integration and African American civil rights would have been the end of his political career tellingly, he waited to endorse John Kennedy for President until he had secured the Democratic party nomination for Governor.

    He avoided the question of race while campaigning, so that he could, while in office, chip away at the antiquated prejudice of the Beverly Lake supporters. We all owe a debt of gratitude to Terry Sanford for taking, what was then, a courageous political stand and shaping the modern day politics of the American south.

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