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

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.”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/01/senator_byrd_and_the_kkk/

Answer 2

"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 3

The man in you elegance is dull and does not recognize a lot approximately being Latino. I am Latino, and I in no way examine our battle to the African-American battle. It is specific, and used to be now not as publisized because the Black battle. BUT I do have got to say that almost all folks do not know that each blacks and Latinos (Mexican folks in theis case) have had their land taken clear of them: Blacks have been enslaved and offered to the Americas whilst the whole western side of the USA (which used to be then all of Mexico) used to be signed off the the white guy. They kicked us out of our possess land, and did lynch our folks within the southwest aswell as Native americans. Of direction, African-American Civil Rights Movement had unfastened ties with the Chicano walkouts, however every has its possess historical past on this nation. Both Blacks and Latinos have deep roots within the United States, however evaluating the 2 is incorrect in view that they don't seem to be the equal. While blacks have had folks calling them inhuman, Latinos had folks calling them the specified equal factor. Signs like NO DOGS OR MEXICANS wherein published all of the method up till the 1960's. You even mentioned that you do not a lot approximately you Latino facet, good perhaps you must seem it up. It is not reasonable to mention Blacks had it the worst in view that how are you aware different racial companies battle in America? Asian Americans, Blacks, and Latinos must be peers, in view that all have long gone by way of struggles of their historical past in America. Though evaluating the hardships is not proper and nobody can take your historical past clear of you.

Answer 4

George Wallace, Governor of Alabama:
"Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever".