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 institutionally racist perspective common in academia. RobS^{Give Peace a chance} 14:48, May 18, 2023 (EDT)

Thanks; and as a whole, Conservapedia can drastically renovate and expand civil rights/black history–related articles into a comprehensive series. What most on the political right fail to do is actually provide a meaningful alternative to the Marxist distortions of civil rights history—this is where we have an excellent opportunity to actually inform history-intrigued folks properly. I'm back to developing the series about anti-lynching legislation history in the U.S. (and no, the bill Biden signed doesn't count, because it was pointless and merely for deceptive optics), and despite Conservapedia's currently abysmal page view growth overall, I see an opportunity in more of the long-run to gain a decent readership. And man, will the leftists be irritated to see my massive compilation of evidence implicating New Deal liberalism as the hindrance to civil rights! —LT ^{(Matthew 26:52)} Thursday, 14:56, May 18, 2023 (EDT)