"We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney and the Civil Rights

I just downloaded it.


My dad was in high school when desegregation (or integration) started. He doesn't talk about it much, but he says that it was bad. I can't imagine living during those times. Truly a pathetic time in our country's history.

I'm reading it now. Like I said, my dad said that it was bad. My mom was scared to go to school in the 70's.

Better than being called a bitch and an arse hole in the other thread.

Thanks for the link. I enjoy reading stories like this.

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L.A.

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Great thread. It's fitting that you would start it on the 50th anniversary of the day LBJ signed the CRA into law.

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And just 7 years earlier

From LBJ:

"These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”

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I just downloaded it.

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Awesome!

I'm to the point where "the klansmen received sentences of up to 10 years" and I'm already pissed off.



10 years? That's it?

I'll definitely put it on my list to read.

Thanks L.A.

BlackHelicopterPilot, this picture illustrates what made MLK and Mandela great. Both of them were New Testament Christians. They truly believed in forgiveness and letting bygones be bygones, rather than settling scores. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but as far I know, both Jews and Muslims believe in the Old Testament creed of an eye for an eye and tooth for tooth. Jews are still searching the globe to settle scores with old and decrepit prison guards who worked at low level positions in concentration camps 70 years ago, Muslims have similarly ancient, albeit legitimate, grievances that they're still trying to address. In South Africa, Mandela supported settling grievances with the Afrikaners with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but I can't imagine either side in the Israeli-Arab conflict supporting such an idea.

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Why doesn't it surprise me that that you would hijack an uplifting thread and turn it into the same old Republican vs Democrat vitriol? And why didn't you provide a link to your propaganda?

Vols&Shaft83 please go away. Can't you see based on the tenor of the other comments that folks on this aren't interested in engaging your never-ending Black, Muslim and Democrat bashing? Have you have posted anything positive on this board in your life? Jesus Christ!