Board members later removed the word âwhiteâ from a contract stipulation conveying âthe right of burial of the remains of white human beingsâ
time.com
"The board of a small Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a Black sheriffâs deputy held an emergency meeting Thursday and removed a whites-only provision from its sales contracts. The family of Allen Parish Sheriffâs Deputy Darrell Semien, who died Sunday, had been told that he could not be buried at the cemetery near Oberlin because he was African American.
Karla Semien of Oberlin wrote Tuesday on Facebook that a woman at the cemetery had told her that her husband could not be buried there because it was for whites only. I just canât believe in 2021 in oberlin Louisiana this is happening,â Semien wrote. âTo be told this is like we were nothing. He was nothing? He put his life on the line for them,â Semien told KPLC-TV on Wednesday."
Yea, it's hard to believe that this shit is still happening in 2021 -- but fortunately, the president of the funeral home made it right and even offered a free plot to the family to try to make amends....As was said in the article, the "whites only" provision was one of those hold overs from the Jim Crow era...I guess it takes awhile to totally dismantle a system like that; this was just one more brick removed....while some may have wanted to "conserve" that kind of privilege, progressing forward is good...
Hmmm...one of them DemoKKKrat rules. Damn sad story.
Greg
It must really be a sad place to have to avoid saying the word conservative huh??
And its usually the so-called conservatives that always find ways to avoid saying that word when it comes to the Civil Rights era....why??
You should be able to point to plenty of Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Women's Rights policies that were written by Conservatives...right??
Laws of the Northwest Ordinance. (Predated the Formal party but the anti-slavers went on to form the Republican Party......read the Article. End of the Slave Trade 1808....ditto
Dems, however.....
The 1820 Missouri Compromise promoted slavery........
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
Jim Crow Laws...................LEGION
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Having taught US History at the college level, I would like to add the many efforts of Democrats even after the Civil War despite and defying the new amendments to the Constitution to disenfranchise former slaves by court decisions by the courts to establish and maintain segregation as an example Plessy v. Ferguson.
Deidre Shelden (author) from Texas, USA on October 19, 2012:"
Also.....you forgot about Eisenhower
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t started with
the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Eisenhower endorsed civil rights legislation in his 1956 State of the Union Address. Running on a civil rights platform, the GOP incumbent then easily defeated Democrat candidate Adlai Stevenson and increased his vote totals in the South in 1956 over the 1952 election.
In 1957, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower
sent Congress a proposal for civil rights legislation, which he proposed in his 1957 State of the Union address,
designed the bill,
engineered it through Congress, and signed the first civil rights bill into law since Reconstruction.
Senator Everett Dirksen (R-IL) introduced the civil rights bill on behalf of the Eisenhower Administration and assumed leadership to move the bill through the Senate. Republican Dirksen declared that âSince 1945 I have been introducing bills for civil rights.â
Back when Republicans actually had backbones,
the Republican National Committee issued a press release on August 6, 1957, attacking then U.S. Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson (D-TX) for opposing the Republican civil rights legislation. The RNC exposed how Democrats including LBJ as late as 1957 were fighting against the rights of African-Americans.
By this legislation, Eisenhower created the Civil Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, empowered federal prosecutors to get court orders enjoining interference with the right of blacks to vote, and established the Civil Rights Commission. The final act was weakened by Congress from Eisenhowerâs draft due to lack of support from the Democrats.
However, as the
Western Illinois Historical Reviewexplains, prior to 1957, âSouthern congressmen and senators prevented any legislation from passing for decades due to their domination of powerful committees and their use of the filibuster. The 1957 act showed cracks in the system.â Eisenhowerâs Civil Rights Act of 1957 was a game-changer because the Republicans opened the door to getting legislation passed, not because it was the one and only civil rights bill needed.
Later that year, Eisenhower issued
Executive Order 10730 on September 23, 1957, âDesegregation of Central High School,â
calling out the National Guard to desegregate the South. The President
nationalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent in National Guardsmen from
the 101st Airborne Division, starting in Little Rock, Arkansas, to escort African-American students into previously whites-only segregated public schools.
Next Republicans passed
the Civil Rights Act of 1960. Republican Eisenhower proposed measures to strengthen enforcement and the teeth of his Civil Rights Act of 1957, including providing for federal prosecution for interfering with court orders regarding school desegregation. In keeping with the consistent pattern on civil rights, 81.5% of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted for Ikeâs 1960 Civil Rights Act while only 59% of Democrats did.
Democrat President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ButâŚ. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and of 1960. And a greater percentage Republicans voted for all those civil rights bills than Democrats. So both Republican and Democrat Presidents signed civil rights legislation. "
BTW: JFK pushed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill up until his death BEFORE it was passed because not only was he a good man but he was a N E Catholic Dem; they were hated by the rest of the DemoKKKrats as much as Blacks.
The Republican Party was founded largely to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence that âAll Men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.â Republicans cannot represent who we...
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So, stupid, maybe you should just accept that you're an ignorant twit!!!
The Founders worked to stop stop the spread slavery in America, but soon after the direction reversed. A few decades of policy promoting slavery resulted in a new political party to fight against it.
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Greg