Am I nuts or didn’t Johnson sign that with a gun to his head?
Wasn’t the Civil Rights Bill a Republican bill? Just how do the Dummycrats grab the mantle of civil rights when it was the Republican Party, going back to Lincoln, that fought so hard to pass civil right?
I mean, you got a party that has not thrown out Sheets Byrd, had a governor (George Wallace) block entrance to a school, and on and on.
What the hell am I missing?
LBJ (and a great majority of the GOP) may have supported the bill/act....while the (Racist) "Southern Democrats" fought "tooth and nail" against its passage....as to the 2nd Question....I guess general stupidity and /or the actions of the NEA/DNC/LMSM
From: National Review | Date: 7/15/2002 | Author: HERMAN, ARTHUR
It is not a pretty story. Johnson conspired with southern segregationists to kill the original Eisenhower-sponsored bill that passed the House. This was not going to be a Republican bill, or even a liberal Democratic bill; it was going to be a Lyndon Johnson bill, pure and simple. Caro shows how Johnson deceived Richard Russell into allowing it to proceed out of committee; how he sold political favors to liberal senators like Frank Church of Idaho in order to kill their support for portions of the bill that might trigger a southern filibuster; and how in the end Johnson sold out the bill's original supporters by passing legislation that was more symbol than substance. All of this shows Johnson at his most scheming and manipulative, but with one difference. Now, Caro says, he was "deceiving and betraying and cheating on behalf of something other than himself" -- in other words, for the cause of equality for blacks.
No. It was clearly LBJ's bill. A carryover, in fact, from JFK -- who had not pushed the project nearly as hard as did LBJ.
Johnson thought he was "buying the n----- vote for a generation".
But it took the support of the minority party in the Congress -- the GOP -- to get it passed. At the time, the majority Democrat party did not support the bill, because of the presence of so many southern Democrats (J. William Fulbright, Albert Gore, Sr, etc).
The Civil Rights Bill passed -- with a majority of the GOP voting for it and a majority of the Democrats voting against it.
It certainly was Eisenhower who sent the National Guard to integrate the schools in Little Rock, et cetera. Here's what Wikipedia says:
Eisenhower supported the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka U.S. Supreme Court decision, in which segregated ("separate but equal") schools were ruled to be unconstitutional. The very next day he told District of Columbia officials to make Washington a model for the rest of the country in integrating black and white public school children. He proposed to Congress the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and signed those acts into law. Although both Acts were weaker than subsequent civil rights legislation, they constituted the first significant civil rights acts since the 1870s. The "Little Rock Nine" incident of 1957 involved Arkansas state refusal to honor a Federal court order to integrate the schools. Under Executive Order 10730, Eisenhower placed the Arkansas National Guard under Federal control and sent Army troops to escort nine black students into an all-white public school. The integration did not occur without violence. Eisenhower and Arkansas governor Orval Faubus engaged in tense arguments.