Word: dixiecrats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's would-be political Lazarus: South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, entombed as the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, who seemed willing to rise again. In Rock Hill, S.C., Thurmond cried out for a "real Democrat" (a term he deems almost exclusive to himself) to take over the state's party leadership and be ready to act "independently...
...might bring about a change in the Senate's cloture rule, and it would certainly build up ill will that could only harm the Southern cause in future years. Among the first to agree with the no-filibuster decision was South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the 1948 Dixiecrat candidate for President...
...Southerners were not so sure: South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, hero of the Dixiecrat uprising in the Democratic Party in 1948, suggested that they march in a body down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House to see Eisenhower and tell him they would not back down; his stalemate Olin ("the Solon") Johnston had a 40-hour speech ready for one of the biggest filibusters of all time. Calmly Russell argued Thurmond out of his proposal. He told Olin the Solon to keep his speech handy, just in case. Then Virginia's Harry Byrd summed up the sense...
...Gubernatorial Candidate Martin Conner; at 21 he went to Washington as Mississippi Congressman Aaron L. Ford's secretary. Returning home with an Indiana-born wife, Coleman progressed from district attorney to Circuit Court judge to Supreme Court commissioner. He became attorney general under Governor Fielding Wright, in 1948 Dixiecrat vice-presidential nominee. In 1955 Coleman defeated Wright and three other candidates to become Mississippi's 51st governor...
...Reuther, in an address sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union, at New Lecture Hall, carefully distinguished between support of the national ticket and blanket approval of the Party. "We have not endorsed the Democratic Party," he said, "and I have never lifted one finger to help a Dixiecrat." He emphasized that the UAW and other labor unions consider only the issues in giving their support to political candidates...