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What Opposition was there to the Civil Rights Movement - Coggle Diagram
What Opposition was there to the Civil Rights Movement
Fears
Massive immigration
W.J.Simmons
Non-white domination
More violent demonstrations
Based on false legal grounds
Factual basis of Supreme Court was wrong
Lose western values
Links to African Nationalism and African Influence
White Citizens' Councils (WCC)
White segregationists
Upper-middle class membership
In response to 1954 Brown v Board of Education
MLK appealed to Eisenhower but he said it didn't indicate violations of federal criminal statutes
MLK saw WCC as modern KKK
Un-godly, un-ethical, un-Christian
Medgar Evers (NAACP) murdered by WCC member
WCC accused MLK & other activists of communism
Incidents
1963 polls showed that 78% of white Americans would leave their neighbourhood if Black families moved in
60% of them had an unfavourable view of MLK's march on Washington
18th June 1964 black and white protestors jump into a whites only pool in Florida
Hotel owner James Brock dumped acid into the water
People
Bull Connor
Segregation now, tomorrow and forever
1968 run for president
George Wallace
Segregationist
22 years as commissioner of public safety in B'ham, AL
During B'ham campaign, he used police dogs and fire hoses on protestors