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1 Dec 2018, 9:18 am
And throughout both semesters, I aligned the story of American legal history around the laws of slavery, race discrimination, and civil rights – important everywhere, and particularly relevant on a campus that is also home to ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman Hall and the Strom Thurmond Institute. [read post]
20 Oct 2013, 9:30 pm
Critchlow, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (2007); Joseph Crespino, Strom Thurmond’s America (2012); Robert O. [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 12:01 pm
Jordan Brunner examined the designation of “Communist Chinese military companies” and Section 1237 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act. [read post]
23 May 2020, 10:17 am
He had more positive things to say about Strom Thurmond, whom he eulogized at the old white supremacist's funeral, than he did criminal-justice reformers in that interview. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 1:58 pm
, where the answer is basically because over 200 years of systematic opposition to the idiocy of that system has proved unavailing against the barriers of Article V, most dramatically in 1969, where the Senate, because of a filibuster led by white supremacists Southern senators Sam Ervin and Strom Thurmond, never voted on a proposal that had in fact gained the assent of two-thirds of the House of Representatives and perhaps would have gotten the two thirds had the Senate been… [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 3:56 pm
Suppose we grant that not everything Strom Thurmond ever did was bad; he was still, in my view, irredeemable, because of the virulence of his racism against blacks. [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]
13 Jun 2011, 9:43 am
Ideological millennia have passed since Strom Thurmond’s fiery speech about “the nigra race” in Southern churches, homes, and pools. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 8:46 am
Think Trent Lott at Strom Thurmond's birthday party. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 1:01 am
” The initial draft of the Declaration was written by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, and it was then fine-tuned by the well-educated lawyers North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin and Mississippi Senator John Stennis. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 7:47 pm
Of course, that's not always bad: You mention in Infotopia that Trent Lott's "genuinely scandalous" statements about the missed opportunity of a Strom Thurmond presidency "were ignored -- except on the blogosphere. [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 2:41 pm
Why does Strom Thurmond continue to be reelected to the Senate. [read post]
26 May 2010, 7:25 pm
" Segregationist Strom Thurmond's child (one of the white ones) is running for Congress, and so is a weirdly ruby-lipped, dewlappy retired lieutenant colonel whose slogan is "Don't hope for a better America... demand it! [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]
17 Mar 2015, 1:54 am
(Three weeks before the August 28 march, Senator Strom Thurmond, later to be exposed for his own sexual “peccadilloes,” publicly attacked Rustin on the floor of the Senate by reading reports of his Pasadena arrest for homosexual behavior a decade earlier — documents he probably got from FBI director J. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 12:37 pm
Smith/Strom Thurmond talking filibuster ((I previously argued for this change, although new scholarship and the events of the past two years have moved me to want greater reform). [read post]
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]
8 Apr 2010, 1:07 am
" Al Brophy's work on monument law, including explorations of statutes of Ben Tillman and Strom Thurmond, makes me think the Senate's apology is ambivalent because the attitudes of many Americans are ambivalent. [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 3:58 pm
Strom Thurmond's Brown v. [read post]
11 Sep 2008, 2:07 am
It's almost as if Trent Lott got his wish and Strom Thurmond HAD won the 1948 Presidential election. [read post]
