William F. Buckley and Civil Rights

Filed under: Racism, United States, William F. Buckley — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on June 30, 2008 @ 6:00 pm CEST

All too often, people - albeit especially progressives - assume that conservatives were strongly opposed to the civil rights movement, back in the early second part of the 20th century. Conservatives, most progressives believe, were opposed to equal rights and equal treatment because they were either racist or because they, well, opposed any change because they preferred the status quo out of fear that change may produce unwanted results and chaos. (more…)

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