Talk:Civil Rights Movement
This article on the civil rights movement is appallingly short.Panini 09:59, 16 August 2007 (EDT)
Cleaver and Stokely
were more Black Power activists - and revolutionaries- than civil rights advocates. AliceBG 15:59, 1 March 2008 (EST)
New Section
Created a new section on the role the GOP has consistently played in the Civil Rights movement since I thought it relevant, it can be moved lower on the page if people want. I have done a thorough analysis of the Democrat claim that the parties switched here.[1] Anyway, there are Congressional links relating to vote totals mentioned there that can be used here, e.g.:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182 http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/FinalSenatePassageCR1964.pdf http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilRightsAct1964.htm http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0619.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_switching_in_the_United_States#1960s
Anyway, I just figured Conservapedia could use this information. My current website isn't really political so I'm not going to be using this information except when debating anyway, so I figured I'd put it on the site if you want to go into more detail with it. I may not have time to work on the section much more so if anyone wants to research, detail, and source this more thoroughly it would be with my encouragement. --Joshua Zambrano 03:04, 2 September 2013 (EDT)
A few issues in the article
- Does the title need to be completely capitalized? Most spellings simply read "civil rights movement."
- "Democrat reaction" This subsection header in of itself quietly promotes the notion, propagated by Marxist historians, that Democratic Party repression of blacks during Reconstruction was "reactionary" and therefore "right-wing."
- "The Republican coalition in the South fell apart in the 1870s, and conservative white Redeemers took control." There's some truth to it, though vague. The Redeemers which ended up taking control at the fall of Reconstruction were indeed on the conservative wing of the Democratic Party, namely Wade Hampton, though were not quite conservative overall.
- "Sern. John Kennedy voted against [the Civil Rights Act of 1957]." How many times have I explained the simple fact that Kennedy's "opposition" was voting for a weakening amendment? He ultimately voted in favor of final passage, so this vague statement is 95% misleading for readers. The user who spammed this copypasta should correct this, or I will in every article where it's been plastered.
—LT (Matthew 26:52) Thursday, 14:23, May 18, 2023 (EDT)
- You raise some interesting and valid points. IMO, this article should be written in context with our Black History article, and not have an Angelo-American Eurocentric white supremacist perspective common in academia. RobSGive Peace a chance 14:48, May 18, 2023 (EDT)