1. George Thomas Turnipseed was an attorney and Democratic member of the South Carolina State Senate known for his liberal activism.
20 Facts About Tom Turnipseed
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Tom Turnipseed spoke and wrote extensively on civil rights and social justice.
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In 1966, Tom Turnipseed became the first executive director of the South Carolina Independent School Association, an accrediting agency set up to legitimate segregation academies.
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Tom Turnipseed soon embraced the party's liberal majority wing and joined Americans for Democratic Action, an interest group founded in 1947 by, among others, Humphrey, Walter Reuther, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Tom Turnipseed was elected to the South Carolina Senate, serving from 1976 to 1980.
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Tom Turnipseed was defeated by incumbent Republican Floyd D Spence, a former Democrat and lawyer from Columbia who benefited from the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign that year.
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In 1982, Turnipseed lost a Democratic primary runoff for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina to Michael R Daniel.
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Tom Turnipseed tried to change his style for [this] campaign, but it was apparently too late.
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In 1998, Tom Turnipseed ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for Attorney General of South Carolina.
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Tom Turnipseed was the president of the South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association.
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Tom Turnipseed was the former board chairman of the interest group the Center for Democratic Renewal, formerly known as the National Anti-Klan Network, based in Atlanta.
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Tom Turnipseed was the co-counsel for the Macedonia Baptist Church in Clarendon County, South Carolina.
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In 1998, Tom Turnipseed received the Unitarian Universalist Association's highest honor, the Holmes Weatherly Award for the pursuit of social justice.
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Tom Turnipseed had been active in the environmental movement in South Carolina.
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Tom Turnipseed argued that "environmental racism and classism" lead to toxic waste sites being located disproportionately in minority and poorer communities.
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Tom Turnipseed argued that toxic wastes constantly migrate through the air, water, and soil and eventually threaten all persons.
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Tom Turnipseed hosted radio shows on WCAY, WCTG, WCEO, and WOIC.
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Tom Turnipseed hosted community leaders, national and local leaders in politics and public affairs, sports, and arts, and entertainment.
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Tom Turnipseed spoke and wrote about political and human rights, traveling throughout the country.
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Tom Turnipseed's essays were featured in several books, including Cast A Cold Eye and America's Opinion Writers.