You will notice that the Freedom Rides and civil rights marches all took place under Democratic presidents. It was the only way to get Democratic administrations to intervene against their fellow Democrats. In June 1962, a federal appellate court ruled that Meredith had been denied admittance to Ole Miss because of his race and ordered the university to enroll him. (At least that’s how the two Republican judges voted; the segregationist FDR appointee dissented.) But one old segregationist on the court – who had not even sat on the case – kept issuing stays to prevent enforcement of the ruling. Only when these illegitimate stays were appealed to the Supreme Court did Bobby Kennedy’s Justice Department finally weigh in, asking Justice Hugo Black, the circuit justice, to lift the stays – nearly two years after Meredith had written to the Department of Justice asking for its help. Needless to say, Justice Black came down on Meredith’s side in a matter of about six seconds. The full court had already decided the school segregation issue years earlier in Brown. But the state still would not admit Meredith to Ole Miss. With a showdown inevitable, President Kennedy, on the counsel of his trusted attorney general, Bobby Kennedy, wrote a letter to the segregationist Democrat governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett. These were JFK’s stirring words on behalf of the constitutional rights of black Americans, redeemed with the blood of American patriots: “White House, September 30, 1962 Read more at wnd/2013/07/bill-oreilly-killing-history/#i9Q4llxtrfXXBhDj.99
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