In 1957, racist Democrat Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus surrounded Little Rock Central High School with National Guard troops to prevent federal court-ordered racial integration. After a tense standoff, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army paratroopers to Little Rock to help black students safely enter the school and attend classes.
As late as the 1963, one of the most prominent Democrat governors in the South, racist Democrat George Wallace, shouted the following words in public at his inauguration ceremony:
Another governor of Georgia, racist Democrat Lester Maddox, refused to serve African-Americans in his Atlanta restaurant all of the way into the mid-1960’s. He finally closed the restaurant in 1965, without ever having served one single black customer. This was exactly 100 years after the end of the American Civil War.
In 1957, racist Democrat Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus surrounded Little Rock Central High School with National Guard troops to prevent federal court-ordered racial integration. After a tense standoff, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army paratroopers to Little Rock to help black students safely enter the school and attend classes.
As late as the 1963, one of the most prominent Democrat governors in the South, racist Democrat George Wallace, shouted the following words in public at his inauguration ceremony:
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
Later that year, he stood in the door of the University of Alabama to forcefully prevent black students from entering the school:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door
Another governor of Georgia, racist Democrat Lester Maddox, refused to serve African-Americans in his Atlanta restaurant all of the way into the mid-1960’s. He finally closed the restaurant in 1965, without ever having served one single black customer. This was exactly 100 years after the end of the American Civil War.