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...when then Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott suggested that if separatist candidate Strom Thurmond had been elected President in the 1948 election, "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years," we turned to prominent members of the black community to determine how far he had overstepped...
...battle flag still flies on the capitol grounds off Gervais Street and where dying but persistent de facto segregation still divides church life and civic organizations, will be a test of just how deeply the skirmish has resonated with voters. Sixty years after South Carolina governor (later Senator) Strom Thurmond created the Dixiecrats, rupturing a Democratic Party he found insufficiently racist, the state is poised to remind Americans how far they have come--or how much further they still have...
...deep enough into any family and you can turn up some pretty interesting dirt. Ancestry.com found that Coleman Sharpton, the great-grandfather of civil rights activist AL SHARPTON, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was the great-great-grandfather of Senator STROM THURMOND. Yep, ancestors of the deceased icon of segregation owned ancestors of the permed icon of Brooklyn, N.Y. "The shame is that people were owned as property," said the ever voluble Sharpton, who used the revelation to do a little sermonizing. "Strom Thurmond ran for President in 1948 on a segregationist ticket...
...Worst of all was the jury, whose perverse verdict was the most brazen and lawless act of nullification since the heyday of Strom Thurmond. Sworn to uphold law, they decided instead to hold a private referendum on racism in the L.A. Police Department...
Hello, Mr. President. This is Lazarus speaking." That is how Trent Lott answered a phone call last week from George W. Bush, the man who helped force him out of the Senate's top job in 2002 after Lott praised Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential campaign. Maybe Lott is selling himself short. After all, Lazarus was in the tomb for only four days, but it took Lott, 65, four years to mount the improbable comeback that culminated in his election last Wednesday as minority whip, the second most powerful G.O.P. position in the Senate. But if Bush, who called...