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 ...

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 ...

FREEDMAN: They are very comparable experiences, even with the fact that Truman had not one third party, but two third parties also to worry about – Henry Wallace to his left and Strom Thurmond t ...

The Democrats would continue peeling away voters from the Republican Party in the late 1940s when Harry S Truman ... nominated South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond, a staunch segregationist ...

Truman’s commitment to civil rights alienated a large part of the South. His commitment to stopping Soviet expansion had also alienated the most liberal wing of his party. Gov. Strom Thurmond ...

If we assume that electors would not deliver the presidency to Truman, a deadlocked election would move the contest to the Congress — with enough uncertainty to boggle the mind. Strom Thurmond ...

Truman addressed the NAACP in June 1947 ... The so-called Dixiecrats, led by South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond and others, would pull away in defiance, ultimately transforming national politics.

Truman speaks from the dais at the Convention ... from South Carolina, included Governor Strom Thurmond, a key figure in Wright’s movement. A judge in the state had recently ordered that Black ...