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 ...

Strom Thurmond was a South Carolina senator who ran for president on a pro-segregation platform, ... There was a Confederate flag at his funeral—you can see it above next to his son Paul.

Paul Thurmond gathers with supporters Wednesday June 9, 2010 at the Mount Pleasant Memorial Waterfront Park in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Thurmond, son of the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, is in a ...

STROM THURMOND: It simply means that ... This is your uncle and Senator Strom Thurmond’s son, South Carolina state Senator Paul Thurmond, calling for the Confederate flag to come down. SEN.

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 ...

Even Strom Thurmond’s son is over the Confederate battle flag now. archives; Even Strom Thurmond’s son is over the Confederate battle flag now. by Jenée Desmond-Harris. Jun 24, 2015, 6:10 PM UTC ...

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 ...

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 ...

A statue of former U.S. senator Strom Thurmond stands in the shadows of the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C., on Oct. 22, 2014. (Photo by Linda Davidson / The Washington Post) ...

Strom Thurmond filled many a page in The State newspaper for nearly 70 years. ... Thurmond never called for lowering the Confederate flag. But last year his son, State Sen., ...

The racist massacre in a South Carolina church has tipped the balance in a decades-old tug of war over the meaning of the Confederate battle flag. Its champions have argued it’s a symbol of ...