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Warren K. Leffler

Strom (James) Thurman

1902 – 2003 CE

White Supremacist Hero

Thurman dedicated most of his 48 years as a South Carolina senator fighting against civil rights and racial equality. In 1946 after South Carolina police blinded Black World War II veteran, Isaac Woodard, President Truman proposed legislation to desegregate federal contracting but Thurman led the Southern Racist attempt to stop this by forming the “Dixiecrat” party dedicated to racial segregation.

Before the first civil rights legislations was signed into law by Dwight Eisenhower (The Civil Rights Act of 1957), Thurmond inflicted the longest filibuster by a senator on the the senate floor by speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes. He voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act; and, when Goldwater ran for president, Thurman switched parties becoming Republican and leading the five Deep South states to do the same. In 1968, Richard Nixon made a deal with Thurman promising to not let the federal government enforce Black rights in exchange for Thurman political help which he enthusiastically gave.

Hypocritically, Thurman—after secretly having a daughter (Carrie "Tunch" Butler) with a 15-year-old Black girl—continued his career focusing on cementing white supremacist policies into the fundamentalist Republican strategy. Infamous for regular acts of sexual harassment, he went a little too far when in 1994 at age 91 he attempted fondling the breast of fellow Senator Patty Murray who he hadn't recognized.

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Quotes by Strom (James) Thurman (4 quotes)

“I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.”

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“Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.”

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“She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses.”

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“We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.”

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Quotes about Strom (James) Thurman (2 quotes)

“a relic of America’s shameful past who had long overstayed his welcome... [His legacy is] durability and opposition to civil rights”

Julian Bond 1940 – 2015 CE
Courageous civil rights leader

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“One of the most notorious segregationists in history.”

Anonymous 1
Freedom from the narrow boxes defined by personal history
from Buzzfeed (2019)

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