2007-11-16 03:36:07 · 6 answers · asked by enitguy1134 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Most notably Al Gore Sr (D-TN) and Robert Byrd (D-W.VA) where the leaders of the opposition to the Civil Rights act.
In support of the act House Republicans threatened to send the bill to the floor without Committee approval.
In the Senate, Robert Byrd set the record for the longest Filibuster, attempting to kill the bill.
2007-11-16 03:51:19 · answer #1 · answered by Silicon Menace 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to guess that you are talking about black civil rights and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Here is a list of segregationist - people who supported the idea of "separate but equal" and fought integration.
2007-11-16 03:53:22 · answer #2 · answered by Elizabethe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Klan and their ilk, most Southern politicians, average citizens of certain classes in all parts of the country who needed someone to make them feel superior, people who were afraid of and threatened by change; the list is almost endless.
2007-11-16 08:23:43 · answer #3 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Add Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas in 1954.
William (Bull) Conner, police chief in Montgomery Alabama.
2007-11-16 07:00:12 · answer #4 · answered by william_byrnes2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Wallace and Strom Thurmond just to name a couple of them
2007-11-16 04:08:17 · answer #5 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have some of those people still around...and a couple of their names are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
2007-11-16 03:41:48 · answer #6 · answered by spicymnguy 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋