Thurmond served into the new millennium, having had softened, and even condemned,
his former racist and Segregationist stances.
Former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, a Segregationist, was running for president as an opponent to the Civil Rights movement.
Dr. William David McCain, the college president, used the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, in order to
prevent his enrollment by appealing to local black leaders and the Segregationist state political establishment.