” fiery advocate of racial segregation as a Richmond newspaper editor in the 1950s “
Gee, I wonder why no one bothered to print why.
” fiery advocate of racial segregation as a Richmond newspaper editor in the 1950s “
Gee, I wonder why no one bothered to print why.
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The L.A. Times explained why:
During this period he also became an outspoken opponent of desegregation. He editorialized against the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education, which declared school segregation unconstitutional. The centerpiece of Kilpatrick’s opposition was a 19th century doctrine called “interposition,” which said that states had the right to override a federal mandate that encroached on their sovereign authority. Bolstered by Kilpatrick’s editorials, several Southern states used the interposition argument to pass laws favorable to segregation. Kilpatrick also wrote a book, “The Sovereign States” (1957), to drum up support for the doctrine outside the South, but it failed to gain traction.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-james-kilpatrick-20100817,0,1928236.story