Uh-huh. While Southern Democrats stood in the doorways of schools to prevent black students from entering.
Democrats invented the Civil Rights movement? Since when?
The Solid South is gone, killed by Lyndon Johnson and George Corley Wallace, both Democrats.
The Republican Party was founded on a platform of anti-Slavery and the equality of the races before the law. Since when did the party of opportunist looters - the Democrats - take on that mantle?
Only when they thought they could take votes from the people who stood for principle.
Garner was from Oklahoma, born in the Depression. If he was for civil rights, it put him against the party he was born into - which many young Southerners did in the early 60's, or civil rights would have never survived.
But they didn't invent it. On the contrary. They merely caught up to the rest of the country.
You are a person that gives a good lesson in facts.
So many people have heard the twisted version of the civil rights movement that they would be in complete denial as to what you have written and that is utterly appalling.