Cohodas, Storm Thurmond And The Politics Of Southern Change

Abstract

Strom Thurmond has come more than full circle in his political career. From recalcitrant Democratic segregationist (prior to filibustering a civil rights bit~ he spent three days in a sauna to dehydrate himself so he would not have to urinate) to Republican proponent of the Martin Luther King holiday; from fringe presidential candidate in 1948 to newly-empowered Senate leader today; the 92 year-old Thurmond has never been too far from the shifting cross-currents in the material and ideological winds that signal social change.