Word: sparkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edmond R. Schroeder '53, president of the HYRC, who earlier this week challenged the HLU to justify liberal support of the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the basis of its civil rights position, charged that its reply consisted of "a shotgun blast at Eisenhower, Nixon, and myself, and completely evaded the issue...
Schroeder quoted Sparkman, "Let us never for one moment be fooled into thinking that we can depend on Republican help to defeat these measures (civil rights)." "And the earnest Democrats want to make him president of the Senate," Schroeder added...
Carrington said the civil rights record of Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee John Sparkman was no different from that of his opposite, Richard M. Nixon, even though "it is not political suicide to champion civil rights in California, as it is in Alabama...
Schroeder focused his attack on Senator Sparkman, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, as an arch foe of civil rights legislation...
...said the Democrats have "sold out" to the anti-civil rights faction in the party. Calling Sparkman's selection to the ticket a purely political move, Schroeder quoted him as having said, "I am against the civil rights proposals--always have been and always will...