Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ... electoral votes as part of a states-rights uprising against President Harry Truman's support for civil rights. Nearly a decade later, he set the Senate ...

Strom Thurmond of South Carolina as its presidential ... wrote Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman.

Who was Strom Thurmond at the time? What action did the Democratic governors take after Harry Truman proposed his civil rights plan? How did Strom Thurmond respond? How did the State Rights ...

However, the Democratic nominee for President, Harry Truman, had come out strongly ... Auditorium in downtown Birmingham and nominated Strom Thurmond from South Carolina. Thurmond and the ...

Democrats today should hope that a better comparison is to 1948, when then-President Harry Truman, an unpopular ... Henry Wallace to his left and Strom Thurmond to his right.

Harry Truman, a senator from Missouri ... Alabama and nominated South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond as their candidate for president. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1880-1964): A graduate of the U.S ...

It was clear from President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address that his staff was going for a come-from-behind victory in the style of President Harry Truman. This was the message of the ...

President Harry Truman smiles and waves to the excited ... South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond threatened to pull multiple Southern states out of Truman’s column and potentially cost him an ...

Embattled President Harry S. Truman shocked political pundits and ... Third-party candidate Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond captured 39 electoral votes. Truman woke up in the morning to find the experts ...

When President Harry S. Truman addressed the NAACP in ... The so-called Dixiecrats, led by South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond and others, would pull away in defiance, ultimately transforming ...

Freedman - Author, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights President Harry S ... included Governor Strom Thurmond, a key figure in Wright’s movement.