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15 Jan 2018, 3:20 am
Despite Helms, the bill passed the Senate by 12 votes--even South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond voted in favor of the King holiday. [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 11:53 am
Strom Thurmond in South Carolina, 1954.Alabama's "sore loser" law does not prevent Luther Strange from running a write-in campaign. [read post]
3 Nov 2017, 3:00 am
The Dixiecrats, led by Strom Thurmond, took 39 electoral votes in the 1948 election to weaken the former “Solid South” controlled by Roosevelt’s Democratic Party. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 1:58 pm
The other negative was Strom Thurmond. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 3:12 am
Another prominent objector was Strom Thurmond. 4. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 3:22 am
" Among Breyer’s supporters was Republican Strom Thurmond. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 2:51 am
It also had survived a 24-hour filibuster from Senator Strom Thurmond. [read post]
4 Jun 2017, 1:06 pm
With South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, Ervin weakened the enforceability of the Civil Rights Act before voting against it. [read post]
8 May 2017, 11:25 pm
” Ervin and other conservative Southern Democrats would again and again refer to the framers and their intent, but as Laura Kalman demonstrates in her must-read new history, neither Ervin nor South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond directly mentioned Brown. [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 6:07 am
Strom Thurmond 1964 – Against the Civil Rights Act On April 11, 1964, famed South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond began the longest filibuster on record. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 10:50 am
Strom Thurmond holds the official record, at 24 hours and 18 minutes, for the lengthiest Senate speech, when he filibustered the Civil Right Act in 1957. [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 8:10 am
Strom Thurmond of South Carolina has the record for talking on the Senate floor: Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes in order prevent a vote on a 1957 civil rights law. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 4:36 am
En una movida del senador republicano Strom Thurmond, que no dejó constancia de sus fundamentos, Puerto Rico fue excluido a partir de 1984 de la definición de lo que es un Estado a los fines de la protección del Capítulo 9. [read post]
4 Aug 2016, 1:15 pm
The election of 1948, remember saw both an overtly segregationist general election candidate in Strom Thurmond and a left candidate in Henry Wallace who was channeling Moscow. [read post]
23 May 2016, 1:01 am
Strom Thurmond, Republican from South Carolina [read post]
9 May 2016, 12:52 pm
Strom Thurmond in June 1968, 180 years to the month after ratification of the Constitution (including Article II, Section 2, Clause 2). [read post]
10 Mar 2016, 1:03 pm
Johnson also is the first scholar studying the Fortas confirmation to use the papers of some of the senators who played key roles in the battle, including Fortas’s “most prominent opponents,” Senator Robert Griffin (R-Michigan) and Senator Strom Thurmond (R-South Carolina). [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 12:31 pm
At this point, the Senate consisted of 47 Democrats and 47 Republicans, plus two Independents, one of whom (Wayne Morse) had recently been identified with the Republicans and one (Strom Thurmond) with the Democrats. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
Consider this statement from South Carolina State Senator Paul Thurmond, the son of arch-segregationist Strom Thurmond: I think the time is right and the ground is fertile for us to make progress as a state and to come together and remove the Confederate battle flag from prominent statue outside the Statehouse and put it in the museum. [read post]
21 May 2015, 8:27 am
A famous real-life filibuster involved Senator Strom Thurmond, who held the Senate floor for 24 hours in an attempt to block the Civil Rights Act of 1957. [read post]
