70 Year Magazine Archive

Civil Rights and Legal Wrongs

by James Jackson Kilpatrick

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A careful analysis of the President’s Civil Rights Bill: why it is vital for all Americans, Negro and white, present and future, that it be voted down

The logic is said to go something like this: All decent Americans should support good things. All decent Americans should oppose bad things. Racial discrimination is a bad thing. Bills to prohibit racial discrimination are good things. The President’s pending Civil Rights Bill is intended to prohibit racial discrimination. Therefore, his bill is a good thing, and all decent Americans should support it.

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