11-03-2011, 05:24 PM
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Apocalypse
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Limbo
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Originally Posted by raymor
Look it up. Democrats, like senate majority leader and elected KKK leader Robert Byrd, filibustered the civil rights act of 1964. In the 1860s, it was all about Democrats trying to prevent black people from voting.
KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Forrest stated in an interview that the clan opposition was "the Loyal Leagues, Republican state governments, people like Tennessee governor Brownlow and other carpetbaggers and scalawags."
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Don't forget this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Connor
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Through his covert actions to enforce racial segregation and deny civil rights to African American citizens, especially during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Birmingham Campaign of 1963, Connor became an international symbol of bigotry. Connor infamously directed the use of fire hoses, and police attack dogs against peaceful demonstrators, including children.[1][2] His aggressive tactics backfired when the spectacle of the brutality being broadcast on national television served as one of the catalysts for major social and legal change in the southern United States and helped in large measure to assure the passage by the United States Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[3]
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