re: Was segregation a necessary evil to keep the peace?

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I got the answer I was looking for anyways...makes sense that the emergence of mass media and a more international global community could spark more movements to end segregation.

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The national political landscape was also a factor. From Redemption through WW2, the Democrats were halfway to victory with the Solid South. So they didn't want to rock the boat by pushing civil rights and the South didn't want to rock the boat by developing a competitive two-party system. (Especially with the seniority system, implemented around 1910 to end Speaker Cannon's reign of terror.)

But with black migration to Northern cities that didn't block access to the ballot, and the economic implications of the New Deal, small numbers of black voters began migrating over from the party of Lincoln.

We also had a young populist who moved from Minnesota to Louisiana because he was a fan of Huey Long. During his time in Baton Rouge, he was appalled by the racism of the Deep South. Early in his political career, he rocked the boat at the 1948 Democratic convention, causing the Dixiecrat walkout. That schism was the end of the unholy bargain between the South and the Democrats.

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I would argue that was an intentional construct of the education system in your state. As a citizen of Mississippi, your ignorance on the topic is borderline criminal...but I do recognize that it is not your fault and that it is by design.

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Yea it was never covered much in high school, nor college. Then again I had some dumbass teachers...I remember freshman year of college for a social studies/American Government type class our professor asked us on the first day what the 2 major political parties were..of course we answered Republican/Democrat. His reply to that: "Hell no. It's frickin black and white".

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Now. Either Jim Crow laws were relaxed/non-existent in Caddo Parish in the 40's, 50's and 60's...OR Mr. Phil doesn't think government-sponsored terrorism against its own citizens is "mistreatment". Which one is it?

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Neither. He said black and white field hands worked side by side when he was young. So he didn't experience segregation in his daily life.

And he apparently didn't personally witness any of the ugly incidents of overt violence either.

I hope recruits don't read this board. Why in the hell should a black player bust his arse for LSU and then read crap like this.

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Segregation didn't really start until about 30 years after the Civil War. It didn't start in LA until the Bourbon Democrats took control away for the State at the very end of the 19th century

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THIS! Black former slaves were getting along quite well in the 1870s and 1880s until Jim Crow was instituted and Whites reasserted themselves and retook control after Reconstruction. That is a pretty interesting time period, actually. It is pretty amazing what kind of strides were made by former slaves during a short amount of time. Segregation was a pretty brutal practice and ended up hurting the South badly.

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The 1920s might have been even worse than the 1890s for black people. That's when the inbred racists decided it was intolerable to even allow black business owners to succeed within a segregated system. The Tulsa riots were the most prominent example, but a lot of wealthy black business owners were murdered in the 1920s. Richard Wright's uncle was one of them.

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Tulsa Race Riots were horrible. Every American should know what happened there.

Read Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech in Montgomery at the end of the Selma-Montgomery March in 1965. He explains exactly what happened in the South after the Civil War and on into the 20th century.

Official slavery might have ended 150 years ago, but what went on until about 50 years ago was in many ways very difficult for African Americans. Then, you have Big Government coming in and instituting the Welfare State, which ended up being an even worse scourge by creating dependency.