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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on September 09, 2011, 02:11:09 PM

Title: Today in history, Civil Rights Bill
Post by: tombogan03884 on September 09, 2011, 02:11:09 PM

I can't under stand why the Dems aren't celebrating todays anniversary of the first post war Civil Rights Legislation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower

In 1957, however, he sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas after Governor Orval Faubus attempted to defy a Supreme Court ruling that ordered the desegregation of all public schools. The soldiers escorted nine African-American students, who became known as the Little Rock Nine, to Little Rock Central High School. He wrote legislation that would create a Civil Rights Commission in the executive branch and a civil rights department in the Justice Department, along with protecting voting rights; Nixon stepped in to break a filibuster in the Senate.

Could their thundering silence be because Ike was a REPUBLICAN ?

Title: Re: Today in history, Civil Rights Bill
Post by: twyacht on September 10, 2011, 07:42:07 AM

Could their thundering silence be because Ike was a REPUBLICAN ?

Yes! and the Bull Conner BS as well. Too bad Sen. Robert "White Sheet" Byrd is no longer alive, I'm sure he would have led a celebration.

 ;D

BARBARIC!!!