She stood on a civil rights platform, highlighting the measures supported by David Davis that she claimed threaten civil liberties, including his support for the death sentence.

I was with him when he walked out of the 1964 Republican Convention because the Republican Party wouldn't accept a civil rights platform.

Sanders seems to be mixing a civil rights platform with a tongue-in-cheek poke at the league.

By 1948, he had emerged as an intemperate voice of white supremacy, leading the Dixiecrat revolt against President Harry Truman's civil rights platform.

It would commit the party instead to a strong civil rights platform and a welfare state along Roosevelt-Truman lines.

President Harry S. Truman accepted the civil rights platform, causing the Dixiecrats to bolt the convention, splitting the party - or so it seemed.

During the campaign, she fought on a largely conservative, pro-life rights platform, winning by a narrow margin of just 23,000 votes.

The union also adopted a strong civil rights platform, calling for national legislation and combating racism in its own ranks.

Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on what is politely called a "states' rights" platform or accurately called a "segregationist" platform.