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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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In Chicago, Rep. John W. McCormack selected five southern politicians and an Illinois Black lawmaker for a 15-member subcommittee to draft the Democratic National Convention platform, including a plank on civil rights, amid disputes over school desegregation.
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CHICAGO, (A.P.)—Rep. John W. McCormack today picked five southerners and an Illinois Negro lawmaker to serve on a 15-member subcommittee to draft the proposed platform for the Democratic National Convention.
The group will submit first to McCormack's 107-member platform committee and then to the convention itself a series of proposed planks—including one on the explosive civil rights issue.
McCormack designated himself as ex-officio chairman of the drafting group—obviously in an effort to compromise the bitter dispute between Dixie and northern delegates over whether the platform should specifically endorse the Supreme Court's public school desegregation decision.
From the South, McCormack picked Gov. James P. Coleman of Mississippi, former Gov. John S. Battle of Virginia, Sen. Sam Ervin of North Carolina, Rep. Hayes of Arkansas and Vann M. Kennedy of Texas.
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formation of 15-member subcommittee to draft democratic platform planks, including civil rights, as compromise between southern and northern delegates on school desegregation endorsement.
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Rep. John W. McCormack picked five southerners—Gov. James P. Coleman of Mississippi, former Gov. John S. Battle of Virginia, Sen. Sam Ervin of North Carolina, Rep. Hayes of Arkansas, and Vann M. Kennedy of Texas—and an Illinois Negro lawmaker for a 15-member subcommittee. McCormack serves as ex-officio chairman. The group will draft proposed planks for submission to the 107-member platform committee and Democratic National Convention, including on civil rights, to address dispute over Supreme Court desegregation decision.