Word: segregationists
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...most of his presidency, Kennedy would be no more than a hesitant ally of the civil rights movement. But in his last year he enraged the segregationist South by introducing the bill that would become the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Though Goldwater described himself as personally opposed to segregation, he opposed any federal efforts to enforce basic rights for blacks. Five months before the 1964 election, he was one of only 27 Senators to vote against the Civil Rights Act. At that year's G.O.P. Convention, the civil rights plank was voted out of the platform. The South noticed...
Lott actually began his career as a conservative Democrat, serving as a top aide to Representative William Colmer, a segregationist, before switching to the G.O.P. to run for Colmer's seat when the boss retired in 1972. Cashing in on his college contacts from Ole Miss, where he was head cheerleader, Lott won with 55% of the vote and never looked back. In 1988 he became only the second G.O.P. Senator from his state since Reconstruction and soon leapfrogged over far more senior Republicans onto the top rungs of the leadership ladder. After the Republican sweep of 1994, he even...
...Mansfield, Herrnstein, Murray and D'Souza argue that the academic rigors of society and Americans' competitiveness is decreasing because of the large number of undesirables and unqualifieds entering universities and jobs all around the country at the expense of bright whites and Asians. The argument reminds one of the segregationist platform in the 1950s and 1890s which argued that allowing black children to be educated in the same schools around white children would denigrate them intellectually. The true intent, during those times and during our own, is to keep as many African-Americans and Latinos as possible outside of places...
...Martin Luther King's Why We Can't Wait. Or perhaps they should view documentaries of the civil rights movement such as "Eyes on the Prize." These visual records illustrate Dixie's depravity and demonstrate the rebel flag's racist connotations--in the turbulent '50s and '60s, no good segregationist was seen without the stars and bars, which was frequently emblazoned on a vest or embroidered on a Ku Klux Klan robe...
Gingrich saw his big opening in 1974, when he challenged Sixth District Congressman Jack Flynt, a silver-haired, small-town patrician, very much part of the Democratic establishment. Flynt was no raving segregationist, but unlike Gingrich, he declined to talk racial justice, the environment and other populist themes. In this situation, Gingrich, with his bushy black hair, sideburns and citrus-colored double knits, came off to most people as the more liberal of the pair. He charged that Flynt was in cahoots with the lobbyists. One Gingrich campaign piece proclaimed, "Newt Gingrich ... his special interest...