Word: thurmond
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...said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction." And in Charleston, Columbia, Florence and Greenville, S.C., integration proceeded without major trouble. In Greenville, a young Negro was sipping tea in the Jack Tar Poinsett Hotel dining room when South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, one of the rights bill's bitterest foes, walked in. Apparently unaware of the Negro's presence, Thurmond sat down in another part of the room and quietly ate breakfast...
...both Johnson and Collins had reckoned without South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948 and now the longest-winded, strongest-muscled of all the U.S. Senate's Democratic segregationists. In Collins' confirmation hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, Thurmond needled his fellow Southern Democrat mercilessly, intimated that he was a traitor to his own section of the country. Collins flushed and retorted: "Senator Thurmond," he said, "I love the South, and I am sure you must have sensed that. Don't you challenge my deep feelings about the South...
That was by no means the end of it, and two days later, Thurmond's hostility toward Collins brought on one of the silliest episodes in the Senate's history...
...Democrats- 21 H. F. Byrd (Va.) R. Long (La.) R. C. Byrd (W.Va.) McClellan (Ark.) Eastland (Miss.) Robertson (Va.) Ellender (La.) Russell (Ga.) Ervin (N.C.) Smathers (Fla.) Fulbright (Ark.) Sparkman (Ala.) Hayden (Ariz.) Stennis (Miss.) Hill (Ala.) Talmadge (Ga.) Holland (Fla.) Thurmond (S.C.) Johnston (S.C.) Walters (Tenn.) Jordan...
...John C. Stennis; and Louisiana's peppery Allen Ellender, who held the floor for 25 hours, with overnight recesses, during a 1938 filibuster. "I'm 73 now," says Ellender, "but I wouldn't mind trying it again." Also in the ranks: South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who holds the alltime Senate wind record with an uninterrupted 24-hr. 18-min. speech during the 1957 civil rights debate; North Carolina's Sam Ervin, who is ready with a waist-high pile of books on constitutional law and a heap of stories about Uncle Ephraim...