September 9 of 1957… A date which, apparently, will live in anonymity.
That was the date that president Eisenhower signed into effect the 1957 civil rights act. Given that most of you are graduates of government schools, you’ve probably never heard of the 1957 civil rights act.
The 1957 Civil Rights Bill aimed to ensure that all African Americans could exercise their right to vote. It wanted a new division within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses and a joint report to be done by representatives of both major political parties (Democrats and Representatives) on the issue of race relations.
Now the bill didn’t get all that much support from the Democrats of the day. Any more than you’d tend to want to rip off an arm or a foot. The senate leader, one Lyndon Baines Johnson, whom you may have heard of, you may also recall was a Democrat. Johnson realized, that the bill would cause problems within the Democratic party. It would split the south from the west, and thus, he did not support the bill. Johnson’s immediate response was to try to bury the bill in committee.
Perhaps the scenario of the bill and it’s travels through both houses of Congress, and those who supported it, and those who objected to it, are the reason that you don’t hear very much about the 57 civil rights act. Republicans wrote it and pushed it through and signed it into law, over the objections of the Democrats.
The problem, you see, is that the Democrats are claiming today to be the party of ‘civil rights’. .. an argument that’s a little hard to maintain when this kind of history is in the schoolbooks.
So, it’s not, anymore. Nor does the date get mentioned , even in passing, by our supposed mainstream media.
Editor’s note:
This post was in time release, so as to come out on September 9. That got fouled up, when the site did.
Tags: civil rights, cultural values, Democrats, WHAT biased press?
