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...some areas, said Mound Bayou's Postmaster C. V. Thurmond, it "would be suicide for a Negro" even to attempt to vote. One minister who came to Itta Bena (pop. 1,725) to meet the editors said that when he had voted, his house was burned. ¶In Cleveland (pop. 6,747) wealthy Attorney Ben Mitchell earnestly told the group: "The Negroes are just naturally and inherently inferior to white people...
...about civil rights, it "cannot go it alone, because only within the framework of the two-party system is it able to maintain enough political power in the Congress to protect its interests [through seniority on powerful House and Senate committees, etc.]. The third party led by J. Strom Thurmond-also of South Carolina-in 1948 should have taught us a lesson . . . Such movements could leave the section politically powerless, with all that this implies...
...STROM THURMOND U.S. Senate Washington...
...idea for a Southern manifesto was conceived by South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, who enlisted the powerful aid of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. At a caucus of Southern Senators, Thurmond produced mimeographed copies of his own arm-waving call for nullification. The caucus pushed Thurmond aside, ordered the paper rewritten by more temperate Senators. The final version was written mostly by Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, with amendments by Florida's Spessard Holland and Texas' Price Daniel and polishing by Arkansas' highly polished J. William Fulbright, a liberal hero. At that point...
...weeks ago, with the next primary in sight, Strom Thurmond kept his promise, sent a letter of resignation to Governor George Bell Timmerman. At the same time he announced that he would be a candidate to succeed himself. Last week Timmerman appointed Greenville Attorney Thomas A. Wofford, 47, to Thurmond's Senate seat, which Wofford promised to relinquish in November. His probable successor: Thurmond...