The lawmaker son of notorious segregationist and former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond said on Tuesday that he was proud to support the removal of the Confederate… ...

On the floor of the South Carolina Senate Tuesday, the son of longtime US Senator and segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond made an impassioned call to remove the Confederate flag from the ...

Paul Thurmond is now a Republican South Carolina state senator, and has announced that he will vote to remove the flag from the grounds of the state Capitol.

granddaughter of the late South Carolina senator and segregationist, Strom Thurmond. She was there Thursday when Gov. Bailey signed the bill authorizing the removal of the Confederate battle flag ...

It’s not just Confederate monuments that need to come down Charlottesville focused attention on the Confederacy. But we need to reckon with the era of segregation as well.

Strom Thurmond’s son is helping lead the drive to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds.

The statement is, of course, newsworthy not because any of the information about the link between the Confederate battle flag, racism, and slavery is news (it’s not, at all).

In 1948, Strom Thurmond wrapped himself in the Confederate flag and ran for president under the “Dixicrat” banner. On Tuesday, his son led off the S.C. Senate’s push to remove the flag from ...

Why the Confederate flag still flies At campaign stops, fans greeted Thurmond with American flags, state flags – and Confederate battle flags. But desegregation progressed.

The son of longtime senator and once-staunch segregationist Strom Thurmond evoked his family's history on Tuesday when he declared that it was time for the Confederate battle flag to be removed ...

South Carolina state Senator Paul Thurmond, son of segregationist presidential candidate U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, has joined fellow Republicans in calling for the Confederate flag to be ...

Williams, now 79, came forward a year ago, after Thurmond's death, with the secret she had held for more than 70 years. Her upcoming book, "Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond ...