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== Racial Controversy ==

== Racial Controversy ==

[[South Carolina]] was the first to secede from the Union to spark the [[Civil War]], and was the State having the greatest dependence on slavery.  It had continuing racial controversies throughout the 20th century, having as its most popular senator [[Strom Thurmond]], whom [[liberals]] accused of being a racist.

[[South Carolina]] was the first to secede from the Union to spark the [[Civil War]], and was the State having the greatest dependence on slavery.  It had continuing racial controversies throughout the 20th century, having as its most popular senator [[Strom Thurmond]], whom [[liberals]] accused of being a racist due to his 1948 presidential campaign, which had a segregationist platform.

Bob Jones University, a private university, did not enroll black students until 1971.  Afterwards it had a policy against interracial dating and marriage, for which the Internal Revenue Service revoked the the university's 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in 1976.<ref>This ruling was upheld, over the objection of the U.S. Solicitor General, in 1983 by the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in Bob Jones University v. United States.<ref> BOB JONES UNIVERSITY v. UNITED STATES, 461 U.S. 574 (1983) [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=461&invol=574].</ref>  

Bob Jones University, a private university, did not enroll black students until 1971.  Afterwards it had a policy against interracial dating and marriage, for which the Internal Revenue Service revoked the the university's 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in 1976.<ref>This ruling was upheld, over the objection of the U.S. Solicitor General, in 1983 by the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in Bob Jones University v. United States.<ref> BOB JONES UNIVERSITY v. UNITED STATES, 461 U.S. 574 (1983) [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=461&invol=574].</ref>