In the resulting maelstrom, Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and other southern delegates bolted from the convention. They established the breakaway Dixiecrat Party, with Thurmond the ...

STROM THURMOND: These uncalled-for ... On the 14th of July, 1948, the Dixiecrats, as they became known, walked out to protest the party's civil rights platform. With the white South lined up ...

The event that triggered the formation of the Dixiecrat Party in 1948 was the ... prompting many (but not Strom Thurmond), to stage a dramatic walk out. A turning point in the battle came when ...

There's an odd, poetic justice in Trent Lott's downfall over his incautiously fond reminiscences about Strom Thurmond's 1948 Dixiecrat revolt ... Thurmond's States' Rights Party meant to thwart ...

Colmer had bolted the regular Democratic Party to support tickets that were more ... preferring to support the States’ Rights or “Dixiecrat” candidates, Strom Thurmond and Fielding Wright, who was the ...

The list includes downtown Columbia’s 16-story iconic Strom Thurmond federal building and a smaller three-story unused building next to it that was once Columbia’s main federal courthouse.