Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina meets
Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina meets with Dixiecrat politicians on July 24, 1948. Gov. Thurmond was running for president on the States Rights Democratic Party, a.k.a. Dixiecrats, to opposition the Civil Rights positions of both the Republican and Democratic parties. They hoped to win enough votes to put the election into the House of Representatives, but Truman won. At left is Mississippi Gov. Fielding Wright, Dixiecrat V.P. candidate. (CSU_2015_11_1305)
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