Albert Gore, Sr.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Badger
Keyword(s):  
Albert Gore

Albert Gore, Sr.: A Political Life by Anthony J. Badger

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-221
Author(s):  
James E. Westheider
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
Albert Gore

The Signatories

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kyle Day
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Massive Resistance ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
Speaker Of The House ◽  
Albert Gore

Chapter Five provides a narrative of the Senate’s Southern Caucus’ struggle to secure the endorsement of the Southern Manifesto by the majority of the Southern Congressional Delegation. These included an important endorsement by prominent national Democrats like U.S Reps. Brooks Hays, but refusals by U.S Rep. Harold Cooley of North Carolina, Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn of Texas, as well as U.S. Sens. Albert Gore, Sr., Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas. The ramification of these endorsements, for both Massive Resistance and the larger Struggle for Black Freedom, is also examined.

Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-317
Author(s):  
Derek Charles Catsam
Keyword(s):  
Albert Gore

“A Barely Discernible Horizon”

2020 ◽  
pp. 244-254
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Einboden
Keyword(s):  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Albert Gore ◽  
Smith County

This chapter details events that occurred in 1999, when Albert Gore Jr., standing on the steps of the Smith County courthouse in Carthage, Tennessee, began his run for president. The Carthage courthouse chosen by Gore for his announcement was not just a place of justice but also a former jail—the last known prison for two Muslim fugitives. Launching his bid to become President, Gore was standing in the same spot where a pair of Arabic authors had failed to win their own freedoms, despite the Qur’anic appeals dispatched to the sitting President in 1807. On the courthouse steps once climbed by these two captives, Gore welcomed an American millennium that was soon to be haunted by scandals of Muslim incarceration. Gazing into the unsearchable future, Gore stood where two forgotten “Mahometans” had been jailed in 1807, even as he greeted a century that would open with outrage over Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

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