Related Links

• Truman's Acceptance Speech, 1948, Endorsing Civil Rights. Text. Audio.
  
  
• Platform of the Dixiecrat Party 1948

Articles and Excerpts

• Ralph Luker, Trent Lott Should Be History

• Robert Dallek & Douglas Brinkley, Trent Lott's Faux Pas: What Historians Think

• Norman Markowitz, What Would America Be Like If Strom Thurmond Had Been Elected President?

• Joseph Crespino, Republican Double-Speak on Race

• Michelle Cottle, Trent Lott's Racist Past

• Derek Alger, Trent Lott ... Find Another Country to Be Part Of

• Norman Ravitch, Richard Jensen, Michael Kazin, Sam Tanenhaus, Ralph Luker, Abigail Thernstrom, Debate: Was It a Crime to Have Supported the Dixiecrat Party?

• Timothy Noah, Strom Thurmond Never Repudiated Segregation

• Hubert Humphrey, Civil Rights Speech at the Democratic Convention, 1948

• Kari Frederickson, Strom Thurmond's Mixed Record

• Robin Toner, Sanitizing the Past

• David Halbfinger and Jeffrey Gettleman, NYT Profile of Trent Lott

• Eric Black, Dixiecrats' 1948 rebellion signified white resistance

• Timothy Noah, Did Robert Byrd Ever Renounce Segregation?

• Jim Sleeper, The Real Third-Party Candidate in 1948