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Article: "Lily white and hard right": the Mississippi Republican Party and black voting, 1965-1980.(Essay)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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IN 2005 THE U.S. SENATE APPROVED A HIGHLY PUBLICIZED APOLOGY for its failure to pass antilynching legislation in the twentieth century. The symbolic resolution had the cosponsorship of eighty senators, and those who refused to back the measure attracted criticism. The two senators who received the most attention for their failure to cosponsor were Senators Trent Lott and Thad Cochran from Mississippi, the state with the most notorious record of lynchings of African Americans. Criticism in particular focused on Cochran, the senior senator, who had a history of winning elections with more black support than his fellow Republicans. Cochran publicly defended his refusal after ...