SOUTHERN MANIFESTO

SOUTHERN MANIFESTO Senator J. William Fulbright (who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award from President William Jefferson Clinton)... West Virginia senator (and former Ku Klux Klansman) DEMOCRAT Robert C. Byrd… North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin… South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, drafter of the original version of the Manifesto… and Louisiana senator Russell B. Long, son of Louisiana governor and U.S. senator Huey Long.