Ken's right; the civil rights movement started back in the 1950s, when
Eisenhower was in power, and the Southern Democratic Party was in power in
the South. The governors of the Southern states at the time were solidly
behind the segregationists. It's ironic that nowadays blacks as a whole
identify more with the Democrats than the Republicans, under whom the civil
rights movement started.
After the Civil War ended, it was the Republicans who made sure Lincoln's
Emancipation program went through. All over the South the federal
government installed Republican office holders - unfortunately some of them
were opportunists, ready to make a fast buck out of the defeated
Southerners, thus leading to the Southern term, the hated 'carpetbaggers.' a
real term of contempt. There's a note in my Texan great-great grandfather's
papers - a sworn affidavit of allegiance to the US after the Civil War; on
the back, someone had noted in a neat copperplate handwriting, "A bitter
pill to swallow." He was a physician and a lieutenant in the Confederate
Army who treated Union POWs in a camp in Texas. Most of them died not from
their wounds but from yellow fever, according to his notes. Fascinating
stuff, history.
Kat
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> who was in power when birmingham was segregationis in
> politics?
> as in the other southern states, it was the
> democrats. george walace stood in the doors of the
> university of alabama to block blacks from entering.
> the civil rights law of 1964 was passed over the
> democrats opposition. study your history. if not for
> republicans the civil rights bill would have been
> blocked. look it up.
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> > BIRMINGHAM NEWS
> >
> > May 18, 2003
> >
> > The Rest of the Revolution:
> > Southern Sidewalks and Civil Rights
> >
> > "What has been done in Birmingham has laid the basis
> > for a better city, buil=
> > t on the ashes of what was. At one time, Birmingham
> > was segregation, depriva=
> > tion, subjugation...."
> > Rev. Fred Shuttleworth, a Birmingham civil rights
> > pioneer
> >
> > Rev. Shuttleworth said this at the recent 40th
> > reunion for "soldiers of free=
> > dom" in Birmingham, Alabama. It was held in the area
> > of the city shared by t=
> > he civil rights museum, the 16th Street Baptist
> > Church and the park where pr=
> > otestors were persecuted for speaking out against
> > racial exclusion in the 19=
> > 60s.
> >
> > Statues in that park depict authorities abusing
> > people of color simply for w=
> > anting to be included. They are powerful statements
> > of how Birmingham used t=
> > o be if you were not white.
> >
> > I am proud of how far my hometown has come. I have
> > signed what is called "Th=
> > e Birmingham Pledge" asking people not to
> > discriminate against others who ar=
> > e different. Thousands of people across the South
> > have done the same.
> >
> > But I am also very puzzled. Birmingham has recently
> > openly decided to still=20=
> > exclude people with disabilities of all colors from
> > its public walkways.
> >
> > See --
> > Sacramento, California is pursuing an appeal to the
> > U.S. Supreme Court in an=
> > effort to have those justices declare that public
> > sidewalks do not have to=20=
> > be accessible to people with disabilities. That city
> > is paying the legal fee=
> > s for any other cities and counties in America who
> > want to join the appeal.
> >
> > To my great regret, Birmingham has signed on to that
> > effort to keep disabled=
> > people off public sidewalks. My city bought into
> > the fiction that allowing=20=
> > people who use wheelchairs the same passage as
> > others would immediately cost=
> > millions of dollars.
> >
> > That simply isn't true. The Americans with
> > Disabilities Act specifically sta=
> > tes that actions can be modified (but not ignored or
> > cancelled) to take into=
> > acount undue financial burden.
> >
> > Birmingham is not the only bastion of the civil
> > rights era to sign on to cur=
> > rently keep disabled people off their streets. The
> > list includes many cities=
> > right out of the pages and films of the historic
> > racial struggles of 1950s=20=
> > and 60s.
> >
> > Albany, Georgia is there. So is Little Rock,
> > Arkansas where the first great=20=
> > effort to integrate public schools is now part of
> > American history. Even the=
> > city where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. drew his
> > last breath has signed on t=
> > o legally block disabled people's access to
> > sidewalks.
> >
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