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52 U. Miami L. Rev. 925 (1997-1998)
A Time for Reflection

handle is hein.journals/umialr52 and id is 935 raw text is: University of Miami Law Review VOLUME 52 JULY 1998 NUMBER 4 A Time for Reflection MARC A. FAJER Promises Kept, Promises Broken, the conference dealing with discrimination in housing that gives rise to this symposium issue, began on February 6, 1998. Exactly fifty years earlier, on February 6, 1948, another distinguished group of people-the Conference of Southern Governors-gathered in Florida to discuss discrimination.1 The topic of discussion was the recent civil rights proposals by President Truman. These proposals, sought to prohibit certain discrimination in voting and employment and provide federal civil rights remedies for lynching.2 During these discussions, Mississippi Governor Fielding Wright threatened to withdraw his support for Truman in the 1948 presidential elections, if Truman continued to push for federal civil rights legisla- tion.3 Governor Thompson of Georgia opposed Governor Wright, argu- ing that the Southern Democratic Governors should not undermine the leadership of their party. However, he did state to the press that the civil rights program was unnecessary and unwise.'4 Notably, one of the participants in the conference on that day, Governor Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, would leave the Democratic Party for the first time5 over precisely these issues and run against Truman that fall on a Dix- iecrat ticket.6 Simultaneously, in Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court was 1. See John N. Popham, South's Governors Hear 'Revolt' Talk, N.Y. TIMES, Feb. 7, 1948, at 19. 2. These proposals did not involve housing discrimination, which was the subject of this symposium. See Popham, supra note 1. 3. See id. 4. See id. 5. Governor Thurmond later changed his political affiliation from the Democratic to the Republican Party while he was a Senator for South Carolina in the 1960s. See Mary Lynn F. Jones, Senate's 9 X-Dems Would Give Party Majority, THE HILL, Apr. 29, 1998, at 1. 6. See GORTON CARRUTH, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FACTS AND DATES 540 (9th ed. 1993).

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