Strom Thurmond

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South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July 1948. Thurmond would head the Dixiecrat ticket opposing the Democrats shortly after the convention ended.

Courtesy of the Strom Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Clemson University

Strom Thurmond

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