Damn communists. Without them, blacks would still have to give up their seats to whites. And maybe we could have our own lunch counters, bathrooms, water fountains, universities...
/major pi$$ed off sarc
Paul Robeson was prominently featured as a key leader of the civil rights movement, even though he was a card-carrying member of the American Communist Party, openly praised Stalin in speech after speech, and went on a singing tour of the Soviet Union in 1949 where he gave long anti-American tirades to the foreign press.
No well-meaning American would want to show up to a rally that featured such a vile individual, let alone join an organization he belonged to.
Martin Luther King was the first civil rights leader to realize that persuading white churchgoers to support the movement on Christian grounds would be far more effective than pursuing the support of Communist revolution that many civil rights leaders advocated from 1930-1960.
/major pi$$ed off sarc
Yeah and then the Federal Government wouldn't of moved in to help the blacks by formulating policies that have helped to destroy the black family.
Things could of gotten better for the blacks in this country with out the "Civil Rights" movement. I hate the "Civil Rights" movement because they tend to expect "Civil Rights" to trump individual rights. I feel it is wrong. The communist were not really interested in helping blacks, but rather trying to cause desertion here. Yep its easy to laugh about the commies now, bet millions are in Russia and China now... oh wait they cant laugh their dead.