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Steve Flowers on "Big Jim" Folsom Part Four

Alabama Public Radio
Published July 27, 2017 at 12:10 PM CDT

After sitting out four years, Big Jim entered the governor's race again in 1954, beating three state senators, the president of the public service commission and the lieutenant governor without a runoff; he beat them by challenging the big mules of Birmingham...
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