Some Of The Lost History In The Civil Rights Movement: Were you aware that
in order to break the racist ways of Southern Democrats, it was Republican
President Eisenhower who sponsored both Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights
Act and it was a LBJ lead Senate who fought tooth and nail against them?
Ike finally signed a watered down Civil Rights Bill. Yes, let me repeat
that, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sponsored and signed the first
Civil Rights Bill. Did you know that? In 1957 President Eisenhower signed
the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which was intended to guarantee the voting
rights of all African Americans. This was the first Civil Rights
legislation to pass since Reconstruction. He also was forced to send
Federal troops to Little Rock Arkansas to escort black students entering a
formally all white school. Now today all we here in regards to Civil Rights
legislation centers around the 1964 C.R.A., but this is leaving out some of
the most important parts. Including the fact that LBJ, prior to moving up
to the Executive Office, opposed legislation favoring civil rights for
African Americans in this country. One should ask, why this is no longer
taught in our schools to children?
I apologize for the following language but we have to understand the truth
that is not being told any longer. The following quotes are LBJ quotes:
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” —Lyndon
B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One -
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a
problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the
political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something
about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet
them down, not enough to make a difference.”—LBJ
You can find this in Ronald Kessler’s “Inside The White House”
I can understand the kids in this class being ignorant for any number of
reasons, but after this woman running for Congress displayed her stupidity
and to then find out she is teaching these kids I am horrified.