Remember, not everyone supported Martin Luther King Jr. at the time.
to spread the message of white supremacy and segregation in Mississippi. The newspaper, The Citizens' Council, wrote,"Their aim is to preserve separation of the races against assaults from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in alliance with the federal government."to white Southerners who were not committed to segregation.
of the Little Rock Nine from a mob, a"communist race mixer." Those in favor of integration were frequently accused of being communists.On the Greensboro Sit-ins, The New York Times wrote,"A sounding of opinion in the affected areas showed that much more might be involved than the matter of the Negro's right to sit at a lunch counter for a coffee break. The demonstrations were generally dismissed at first as another college fad of the 'panty-raid' variety.
to a mob of several hundred white people who beat the Freedom Riders after they were abandoned by the police.
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