Then Governor Robert Evander McNair blamed "outside Black Power agitators", but subsequent investigations showed this allegation was without basis.
In contrast, South Carolina governor Robert McNair responded by threatening the strikers with prison time and then placed the city under curfew.
McNair was born in Cades, a town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
Robert Evander McNair (1923–2007), American politician, governor of South Carolina
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They were 1st congressional district Representative L. Mendel Rivers, Governor of South Carolina Robert Evander McNair, state Senator Rembert Dennis, and Columbia mayor Lester Bates.