Members of the newly formed States Rights Committee of Alabama at a meeting of Democratic electors and delegates at the Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham.

Left to right: Claiborne Blanton, Frank Dixon, Robert Knox Greene, and Walter C. Givhan. This image was published in the Birmingham News on June 18, 1948, with the following caption: "Press Fight Against Truman - Alabama's fight against President Truman and 'civil rights' proposa...

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Main Author: Jones, Ed
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/200861
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Summary:Left to right: Claiborne Blanton, Frank Dixon, Robert Knox Greene, and Walter C. Givhan. This image was published in the Birmingham News on June 18, 1948, with the following caption: "Press Fight Against Truman - Alabama's fight against President Truman and 'civil rights' proposals was intensified here today at a statewide meeting of revolting Democrats. A permanent Alabama campaign committee was set up and new strategy mapped in combat the president's program at the Democratic National Convention. Some of the leaders in this movement are pictured, above, at Tutwiler Hotel. They are, left to right, Dallas County Probate Judge Claiborne Blanton, former Gov. Frank Dixon, who presided, Hale County Probate Judge Robert Knox Greene and Dallas Rep. Walter C. Givhan, anti-Truman pledged presidential elector nominee."