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==The fight against integration, the Warren Report, and globalism==

==The fight against integration, the Warren Report, and globalism==

​Touchstone decried the civil rights activists and their determination to bring desegregation to the South. He claimed that [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], whom he claimed had political and financial ties with international [[communism]]. Touchstone targeted the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a communist front group in which [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] had been active prior to 1963. The "Fair Play" group sent busloads of northern blacks into the South to accelerate [[Segregation|desegregation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32129399.pdf|title=Kennedy Assassination Collection Full Results|author=William A.  

​Touchstone decried the civil rights activists and their determination to bring desegregation to the South. He claimed that [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], whom he claimed had political and financial ties with international [[communism]]. Touchstone targeted the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a communist front group in which [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] had been active prior to 1963. The "Fair Play" group sent busloads of northern blacks into the South to accelerate [[Segregation|desegregation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32129399.pdf|title=Kennedy Assassination Collection Full Results|author=William A.  

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Touchstone and another Radical Right ally, George Singelmann, of the Greater [[New Orleans]] Citizens' Council, then organized the "Reverse Freedom Ride movement," which raised funds to provide bus trips for southern blacks into Northeastern cities populated by large numbers of white citiznes who mostly favored the desegregation of the southern states. The disgruntled southern minorities were encouraged to relocate to Hyannis Port, [[Massachusetts]], the site of President Kennedy's compound, or to other cities where northern leaders who supported civil rights legislation lived. Touchstone claimed that his "Reverse Freedom Rides" neutralized the "Fair Play for Cuba" activists.​ After some months, the "Reverse Freedom Rides ended in failure.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_4ea26568-7608-5f9f-969f-86dd7bb5fb85.html|title=Reverse Freedom Rides sent African Americans out of the South, some for good|publisher=''New Orleans Times Picayume''|date=May 22, 2011|author=Katy Reckdahl|accessdate=August 25, 2019}}</ref>

Touchstone and another Radical Right ally, George Singelmann, of the Greater [[New Orleans]] Citizens' Council, then organized the "Reverse Freedom Ride movement," which raised funds to provide bus trips for southern blacks into Northeastern cities populated by large numbers of white citiznes who mostly favored the desegregation of the southern states. The disgruntled southern minorities were encouraged to relocate to Hyannis Port, [[Massachusetts]], the site of President Kennedy's compound, or to other cities where northern leaders who supported civil rights legislation lived. Touchstone claimed that his "Reverse Freedom Rides" neutralized the "Fair Play for Cuba" activists.​ After some months, the "Reverse Freedom Rides ended in failure.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_4ea26568-7608-5f9f-969f-86dd7bb5fb85.html|title=Reverse Freedom Rides sent African Americans out of the South, some for good|publisher=''New Orleans Times Picayume''|date=May 22, 2011|author=Katy Reckdahl|accessdate=August 25, 2019}}</ref>