Personal qoute from an anti-civil rights movement?

Question

it needs to be with a name, ocupation, and a personal experience from the event. the experience should be detailed and vivid, and have personal opinion concerning what happen in the black panther meetings. yeah, its for homework but i really need help.

Answer 1

"When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years, either."  Trent Lott, Republican Senator and Majority Leader from Mississippi. Dec 5 2002

Strom Thurmond ran for the Presidency in 1948 with a platform based on racial segregation. Thurmond supported racial segregation with the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator, speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes in an unsuccessful attempt to derail the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Yea, he woulda been a great president.  

Lott was also affiliated with the Council of Conservative Citizens, basically a white supremacist hate group. He voted against renewals of the Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights Act and against the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday

Answer 2

George Wallace, Governor of Alabama:

"Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever".

Answer 3

Senator Byrd and the KKK

  James Joyner | Thursday, January 27, 2005

Last evening, my colleague Leopold Stotch pointed out the inconsistent treatment in the press of Democrats with a history of racial animus, notably the revered Senator Robert Byrd, a former leader in the Ku Klux Klan, and Republicans like perennial Louisiana candidate David Duke. Jim Henley, reasonably enough, asks, “Did Byrd ever renounce and apologize for his Klan membership or not?”

Certainly, he has. Timothy Noah points out in a December 2002 Slate piece that Byrd has indeed renounced his past. He points out a Byrd interview with CNN’s Bernard Shaw in December 1993:

Q: What has been your biggest mistake and your biggest success?

A: Well, it’s easy to state what has been my biggest mistake. The greatest mistake I ever made was joining the Ku Klux Klan. And I’ve said that many times. But one cannot erase what he has done. He can only change his ways and his thoughts. That was an albatross around my neck that I will always wear. You will read it in my obituary that I was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Quite rightly so. Michelle Malkin wrote an interesting article on the subject shortly after Byrd’s “Fox News Sunday” appearance in 2001 when he used the term “white ******” twice with hardly an eye batted from the media or civil rights establishment. She pointed out,

This ex-Klansman wasn’t just a passive member of the nation’s most notorious hate group. According to news accounts and biographical information, Sen. Byrd was a “Kleagle” — an official recruiter who signed up members for $10 a head. He said he joined because it “offered excitement” and because the Klan was an “effective force” in “promoting traditional American values.” Nothing like the thrill of gathering ’round a midnight bonfire, roasting s’mores, tying nooses, and promoting white supremacy with a bunch of your hooded friends.

The ex-Klansman allegedly ended his ties with the group in 1943. He may have stopped paying dues, but he continued to pay homage to the KKK. Republicans in West Virginia discovered a letter Sen. Byrd had written to the Imperial Wizard of the KKK three years after he says he abandoned the group. He wrote: “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia” and “in every state in the Union.”

The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act — supported by a majority of those “mean-spirited” Republicans — for more than 14 hours. He also opposed the nominations of the Supreme Court’s two black justices, liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. In fact, the ex-Klansman had the gall to accuse Justice Thomas of “injecting racism” into the Senate hearings. Meanwhile, author Graham Smith recently discovered another letter Sen. Byrd wrote after he quit the KKK, this time attacking desegregation of the armed forces.

The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight “with a ***** by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”

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