Can cons name a single conservative organization that fought for civil rights in the 60s?

Question

I tried to find some but could not. There are plenty liberal/left-wing organizations like the ACLU, NAACP, CORE, SNCC, ADA, SCLC, AFL-CLO, and various communist groups too. People forget, but MLK Jr was often accused of having ties to communists.

I know at the very least these conservative groups opposed civil rights:


"Southern Bloc"
The name given to a group of ((CONSERVATIVE)) southern Democratic Senators, and one Republican Senator (John Tower of Texas), who opposed passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The southern bloc was led by Senator Richard Russell of Georgia.
http://www.congresslink.org/print_teaching_glossary.htm#Sbloc

"The Decline of National Review"

"National Review is considered the flagship publication of post-World War II conservatism. William F. Buckley started it in 1955, declaring that it “stands athwart history yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” Mr. Buckley was yelling “stop” to the spread of communism abroad and liberalism at home."

"In fact, the National Review of the 1950s, 60s and even 70s spoke up for white people far more vigorously than Pat Buchanan would ever dare to today. The early National Review heaped criticism on the civil rights movement, Brown v. Board of Education, and people like Adam Clayton Powell and Martin Luther King, whom it considered race hustlers. Some of the greatest names in American conservatism – Russell Kirk, Willmore Kendall, James Kilpatrick, Richard Weaver, and a young Bill Buckley – wrote articles defending the white South and white South Africans in the days of segregation and apartheid. NR attacked the 1965 immigration bill that opened America up to Third-World immigration, and wrote frankly about racial differences in IQ."
- American Renaissance, neo-confederate CONSERVATIVE organization

THE COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE CITIZENS WAS FORMELY KNOWN AS THE WHITE CITIZENS COUNCIL.

"A slew of white citizens groups sprang up to oppose desegregation. The most widespread was the White Citizen's Council, called the "country club Klan" by its critics because members included governors, judges, and congressmen."

http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/gallery6.asp

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/ccc/ccc_intro.asp

johnkillbrew,

The Anti-Defemation League? Here's their website linking the current Council of CONSERVATIVE Citziens with the White Citizen's Council of the 1950s. It was known as the country club version of the KKK.


"The St. Louis-based Council of Conservative Citizens traces its roots directly to the racist, anti-integrationist White Citizens' Councils of the 1950s and 1960s... Its current leader, attorney Gordon Lee Baum, was an organizer for the WCC and built the Council of Conservative Citizens in part from the old group's mailing lists. Like its predecessor, the CCC inflames fears and resentments, particularly among Southern whites, with regard to black-on-white crime, nonwhite immigration, attacks on the Confederate flag and other issues related to "traditional" Southern culture."
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/CCCitizens.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=3&item=ccc

Griffin,

You make the typicall clueless con mistake of equating the Republican Party with conservatism and the South when that was not always the case. The "Southern Bloc" of Democratic senators that opposed civil rights were CONSERVATIVES! The northeastern Republicans that voted for it were LIBERALS.

"Southern Bloc"
The name given to a group of ((CONSERVATIVE)) southern Democratic Senators, and one Republican Senator (John Tower of Texas), who opposed passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The southern bloc was led by Senator Richard Russell of Georgia.
http://www.congresslink.org/print_teaching_glossary.htm#Sbloc

Answer 1

Answer: I just went to the Library of Congress and counted the votes!
The majority of democratic representatives voted against All civil rights legislation...
Only a near unanimous block of republican votes carried the day as it were!
We notice you did not highlight the hateful discrimination of today's democrat darling Robert (K.K.K.) Byrd in your mention of southern democrats!
Such Selective Memory!

Answer 2

There were some 26 major civil rights votes after 1933. These votes reveal the Republican record as splendid with Republicans favouring civil rights in nearly 100 per cent of the votes. On and the hand, Democrats opposed civil rights for blacks in over 80 per cent of the votes.

In 1957 President Eisenhower — a Republican president , not a Democrat — became the first president to order troops into the South since President Ulysses S. Grant. 101st Airborne to help integrate a school in Little Rock. The governor who tried to block the way was a Democrat, just Bull O’Connor was. It was a Republican judge, Earl Warren who was an Eisenhower appointee, who confronted the South’s who finally brought about the full emancipation of all of America's blacks. And it was a Republican president who supported him.

I’ll allow that not all Democrats were tainted. In 1957 Lyndon Johnson pushed 1957 Civil Rights Act, the one that J. F. Kennedy tried to avoid, that only passed with the support of Republicans. Evan a casual reading of history reveals that , 82 percent of Republican Senators voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Acts as against 69 per cent of Democrats. The contrast in the House of Representatives was even more striking. 80 percent of the Republicans voted for the Act while 61 per cent of Democrats voted against it, one of whom was Al Gore’s racist father.

Answer 3

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 would not have been passed if it were up to the Democrats in Congress at that time. President Johnson needed solid support from northern Republicans to overcome the opposition of the Dixiecrats that controlled the Democratic caucus. Of course the Republican party and its conservative wing of that time bore little resemblance to the radicalism that passes itself off as conservatism today.

Answer 4

there are none.

but that won't stop cons from trying to convince you that they are the stalwarts of the civil rights movements from way back in the lincoln days - who after all was a republican.

the problem that i find is that whenever i try to find a single statue of lincoln in the south, i can't find any.

it's time to label the elephant in the room:
the reason that the south abandoned the democratic party in favor of the republicans is all about racism.

so outraged were they that blacks were allowed to vote that they left the ranks of the dems and have been with the republicans ever since.

for reasons of racism.

the south was outflanked in many elections in the 20th century, when good candidates ignored their insane requests and won anyway.

it can happen again.

if the south wants to stay in the early 19th century, let them.

the rest of us have to move on...

Answer 5

It was because of MLK's ties to those communist groups that Conservatives were late to supper on civil rights.

But you should probably also point out that the US Supreme Court had to undermine the US Constitution to enact Civil Rights legislation.

Because many Democrats were also not on board.

But if you want to know where your civil rights really came from, look to Roger Williams and the Baptists.

Answer 6

Gee that's a tough one.
How about the majority of the Republican party at the time.
As noted above, only democrats as a majority voted against every civil rights bill.

Answer 7

Y A W N... I think I'll go back and read about all the liberals in Boston that graciously and openly accepted school busing for integration.

Answer 8

The ACLU

I view them as conservative because they conserve the Constitution.

Even though they are more inclined to be pro Business I feel they are doing a thankless but well needed task.

Answer 9

if you want to rant and preach,get a pulpit or a soapbox.if you really want an answer,how about "the anti-defamation league"

Answer 10

And in 2007, this is relevant how?