In response to Truman’s support for a civil rights plank in the 1948 Democratic platform, __________ led a walkout of southern Democrats from the party convention
A) Walter Sillers of Mississippi
B) George Wallace of Alabama
C) Strom Thurmond of South Carolina
D) Benjamin J. Davis of New York
Answer: C
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