Strom Thurmond: Keynote Address at the States’ Rights Democratic Conference

Glossary

• Benjamin Harrison twenty-third U.S. president
• Charles Pinckney governor of South Carolina, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Electoral College the set of electors representing each state and the District of Columbia, who elect the president of the United States
• FEPC Federal Employment Practices Commission
• Force bill an 1833 law that authorized the president to use force to enforce tariff laws and was used by later presidents for similar purposes
• Franklin D. Roosevelt thirty-second U.S. president
• Gestapo the state secret police of Nazi Germany
• Governor Laney Benjamin Travis Laney, Jr., governor of Arkansas
• Governor Wright Fielding L. Wright, governor of Mississippi and Strom Thurmond’s vice presidential running mate on the Dixiecrat ticket
• Interstate Commerce Commission the federal regulatory agency founded in 1887 with the goal, among others, of regulating the railroad industry
• James Madison fourth president of the United States
• Marshall Plan the common name given to the economic aid the United States gave to Europe in the wake of World War II, named after its creator, General George Marshall
• Reconstruction the period following the Civil War during which the Confederate states were restored to the Union
• sage of Monticello a common nickname given to Thomas Jefferson, whose home in Virginia was named Monticello
• “to bring about government by oligarchy …” quotation from an address Franklin Roosevelt gave on March 3, 1930, while governor of New York

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