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Jul 1, 2003 · Retired Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday. He was 100...
Aug 30, 2023 · CLAIM: President Joe Biden “literally” convinced segregationist U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond to vote in favor of the Civil Rights Act. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Biden had not yet been elected to the U.S. Senate when the landmark law was passed in 1964, and Thurmond was among the prominent southern Democrats to vote against the bill.
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- New York City Reporter
Jun 27, 2003 · Strom Thurmond, a maverick Dixiecrat-turned-Republican who led the longest single filibuster in U.S. history and served in the U.S. Senate nearly 50 years, died late Thursday at the age of 100.
Feb 17, 2019 · Nearly 20 years ago, Biden eulogized Strom Thurmond, who began his long political career as a segregationist. Some South Carolina Democrats still say that's a good thing — but politics has changed a lot.
May 6, 2018 · Drunk driver killed Strom Thurmond’s ‘little girl’ years ago. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nancy Thurmond still wonders if the tragedy could have been avoided. On April 13, 1993, her firstborn daughter and namesake, Nancy Moore Thurmond, was considering a trip from Columbia, where she was a senior at the University of South Carolina, to her ...
Jun 27, 2003 · Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a central figure in the political transformation of the South and the longest-serving senator in American history, died yesterday in Edgefield, S.C. He was 100.
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Jun 26, 2003 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday.
