Word: segregationists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Huck Nelson was only seven when his father first took him down to the steps of the courthouse in Chester, S.C., to hear fiery segregationist Strom Thurmond give one of his tub-thumping speeches. Thurmond was waging a winning write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate. Last week, 24 years later, Nelson, now a Thurmond campaign aide, slouched against the door of the National Guard armory in Greer, S.C., where, after a rousing performance by the Fairview Baptist Church Choir, Thurmond railed against the Panama Canal "giveaway" and the Labor Law Reform bill. Mused Nelson: "There's Thurmond, there...
Thurmond is the consummate courthouse-square politician, meticulously sending constituents congratulations for birthdays, weddings and graduations, and taking care of their problems with Government bureaucrats. Nowadays blacks as well as whites get such treatment. This has been the case ever since 1970, when a segregationist friend lost a bid for Governor. That caused Thurmond to realize the importance of the political power of the blacks; at present 30% of South Carolina's electorate is black. Thurmond appointed his first black staffer that year. More recently he voted for congressional representation for predominantly black Washington, D.C., and supported the appointment...
...politically extinct--confined to the junkheap of rusted-out racists like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. It was Thurmond, after all, who led the Dixiecrat walkout at the 1948 Democratic convention over Harry Truman's modest civil rights proposals and soon earned a reputation as the Senate's foremost segregationist. Television commentator Helms used race to boost him to the Senate...
...Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd referred to the District's status as "conscription without representation." While conservative Republicans generally opposed the measure, Democratic liberals strongly favored it. There were some notable exceptions, however. Two G.O.P. presidential hopefuls?Howard Baker and Robert Dole?voted aye. So did onetime Segregationist Strom Thurmond, who needs every black vote he can get in a close reelection campaign in South Carolina. "Thurmond came over," said Civil Rights Activist Joseph Rauh, "and that was the vote that really made the difference...
Leander Perez's power has passed down to one of his sons, 55-year-old Chalin, president of the five-man parish Commission Council. Unlike his flamboyant father, Chalin comes across as a dark-suited conservative lawyer. His is not the voice of a segregationist, but of a typical official with very rich constituents. "We are one of the most overemployed areas in the United States," he says. And it is true that there are plenty of jobs for blacks as well as whites in the oil and sulfur companies, in fishing and orange growing. "We try to maintain...