C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
The common denominator is conservatism, whether Democratic or Republican is irrelevant.~~~~~~
**********(1963) George Wallace, “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever” •
By 1963 Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace had emerged as the leading opponent to the growing civil rights movement. Six months later he gained international notoriety for his stand in the door of the University of Alabama to block the entrance of two black students, … Read More(1963)...www.blackpast.org
**********Fact check: Southern Dems held up 1964 Civil Rights Act, set filibuster record at 60 days
The 1964 Civil Rights Act passed only after Southern legislators launched a filibuster against it to try to prevent its passage. It lasted 60 days.www.usatoday.com
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Jim Crow law | History, Facts, & Examples
Jim Crow law, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century. The segregation principle was codified on local and state levels and most famously with the Supreme Court’s ‘separate but equal’ decision in Plessy v. Ferguson...www.britannica.com
Then as now, conservatives have pursued an agenda of racism, bigotry, and hate – and for the last 50 years at least, an agenda hostile to women and their reproductive autonomy.