Lewis on Saturday compared the feeling at recent GOP rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace.
Thurmond joined the Republican Party in the 1960s and ultimately turned away from his segregationist past.
Trent Lott (R-MS), whose fond recollections of Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential candidacy provoked a wide outcry and ultimately cost Lott his post.
She said she tried -- to no avail -- to dissuade him of segregationist positions, which produced "mixed emotions" for her.
In 1968, they abandoned the Democratic Party in droves (with 64% voting for either Richard Nixon or the segregationist George Wallace).
But the age of segregationist Democrats ended before most Americans were born.
Washington-Williams kept her father's identity secret until six months after Thurmond, a segregationist leader for decades, died in June 2003 at age 100.
Trent Lott to walk the plank (and lose his job as majority leader) after Lott spoke glowingly of Strom Thurmond's segregationist campaign for president in 1948.
Roosevelt passed laws that brought labor and African-Americans into the Party, but declined to push for laws that would have driven away the white segregationist South.
"I never did like the idea of his being a segregationist, but that was his life, and there wasn't anything I could do about that, " she said.
Civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis sparked controversy on Saturday when he compared the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace.
The impact was immediate: she was working on civil-rights legislation on a committee whose chairmanship had suddenly gone from Edward Kennedy to Strom Thurmond, a former segregationist.
He left the party in 1948 in protest against Harry Truman's support for civil rights, and ran for president as the candidate of the segregationist Dixiecrat Party.
Thurmond, who was white, was an ardent segregationist for decades.
Moments like that help offset the somewhat self-congratulatory nature of the film, especially in how it halos the white people of the time who happen to have anti-segregationist attitudes.
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The boy who grew up herding cattle in the hills of the rural Transkei area and attended a Methodist missionary school where he was given the name "Nelson" has dedicated his adult life to opposing the racist and segregationist policy of apartheid.
"Fables of Faubus" shows how Mingus occasionally butted heads with corporate supervisors: The composer wrote a libretto that further castigated Orville Faubus, the segregationist governor of Arkansas, but Columbia refused to let him record the text (the title itself was nervy enough in that buttoned-down era).
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The cosmetic changes his government made in its segregationist policies to improve South Africa's image abroad, especially its very limited acceptance of multiracial sport, provoked such vituperative fury from Mr Marais and other die-hards that they were dubbed verkramptes (the cramped ones) and expelled from the Nationalist Party in 1969.
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