JFK: Breaking the News is a really good article on revisionist history about race relations, “right wingers” and the JFK assassination.
From Oregon Magazine Larry Leonard writes:
The 14th Amendment was opposed by Democrats. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was opposed by Democrats. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was opposed by Democrats — that opposition in the end taking the form of a 52 (one source says more than 90) day filibuster in the Senate. The last Democrat to participate in that filibuster was Senator Robert Byrd of Virginia, a former member of the K.K.K.Every single advance by black Americans from the end of slavery to the end of Jim Crow to calling out the National Guard to protect Rosa Parks was the direct result of actions by Republicans. The designation “radical” Republican originated in the U.S. Congress, and was the label attached to those men who ended slavery in the northern states, and eventually throughout the United States…
I wrote an article about the subject last year titled “The New Black Codes.”
