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 ...

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.

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 ...

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's son: "Think about it for a second ... became the state's first GOP official to publicly call for the Confederate emblem to be taken off the state's flag. "As a Christian ...

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 ...

It wasn't until Sen. Strom Thurmond incorporated the flag into his 1948 segregationist presidential campaign that the Confederate flag saw new life. The flag soon morphed into a symbol for ...

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.