On the floor of the South Carolina Senate Tuesday, the son of longtime US Senator and segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond made an impassioned call to remove the Confederate flag from the ...

Strom Thurmond was a South Carolina senator who ... and never publicly acknowledged her. There was a Confederate flag at his funeral—you can see it above next to his son Paul.

Strom Thurmond said on Tuesday that he was proud to support the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol. South Carolina state Sen. Paul Thurmond (R) addressed the ...

This is your uncle and Senator Strom Thurmond’s son, South Carolina state Senator Paul Thurmond, calling for the Confederate flag to come down. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: That was Republican South Carolina ...

The son of longtime senator and once-staunch segregationist Strom Thurmond evoked his family's history on Tuesday when he declared that it was time for the Confederate battle flag to be removed ...

Strom Thurmond filled many a page in The State ... Thurmond never called for lowering the Confederate flag. But last year his son, State Sen., Paul Thurmond, R-Charleston, helped convince other ...

The Confederate states went through three official ... South Carolina politician Strom Thurmond ran for president under the newly founded States Rights Democratic Party, also known as the Dixiecrats.

Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), who retires from the ... college’s ban on interracial dating or the state’s hotly debated Confederate flag. Has anything changed? Back in 1956, the Georgia legislature ...

Strom Thurmond — backed the effort to remove ... Also Tuesday, The Citadel's governing board voted to remove and relocate the Confederate Navy Jack from the Summerall Chapel of the state's ...

Strom Thurmond was the splinter group's nominee ... The alleged Charleston shooter, Dylann Storm Roof, was photographed holding the Confederate flag in images on his website.

Strom Thurmond shouldn’t be honored in such a ... asking the university to remove from its campuses “the names of Confederate supporters, racists, misogynists, and those who outright advocated ...