Volume 17 , Issue 24

NW Okie's Journey

This week we bring reminders of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and more history of the violence of White Supremacists groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). I do NOT believe in the KKK or their ideology.

Their violence, hate, fear-mongering needs to be stopped. How can we educate people to bring a stop to the Domestic terrorists of the KKK and other hate groups?

Most white supremacists are ideologically motivated by a series of racist beliefs, including the notion that whites should be dominant over people of other backgrounds, that whites should live by themselves in a whites-only society, and that white people have their own culture and are genetically superior to other cultures.

Did you know, realize that South Carolina Confederate flag was raised in 1961 to insult nine black protesters? It was first hoisted over the Statehouse on 11 April 1961, as part of the centennial celebration of the firing on Fort Sumter, which opened the Civil War.

It was just weeks before the Confederate (KKK) battle flag was first hoisted that 10 black students from Friendship Junior College were arrested on 31 January 1961 and convicted the following day after they refused to leave an all-white lunch counter in Rock Hill.

Nine of those students, Friendship Nine, revolutionized the civil rights movement by refusing bail.

The York County judge tossed out the trespassing convictions against the students on 28 January 2015, saying the men, now in their 70s, should never have been charged in the first place. (8 of the nine are still living.)

Remember the Civil Rights Act of 1964? This bill was called for by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights speech of 11 June 1963, when he asked for legislation "giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which were open to the public ( hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments, as well as great protection for the right to vote.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations").

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