Strom Thurmond
Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmondwas an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 December 1902
CountryUnited States of America
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement,
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.