Ok, with the school violence recently I thought, what would happen if in say, 1960, with some states integrating, a group of Klansmen stormed into an all-Black Southern elementary school, shot a few people in the hallways. Then, afther they had killed a few students and teachers and settled in they issued a demand that the segregation of schools be declared constitutional by the federal government or they start killing hostages working their way up in age.
Brown vs Board-- KKK retaliation
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Why? Such a barbaric action would lead to massive backlash against the KKK and help out the Civil Rights movement. Even Southern Whites would be disgusted by such tactics, so there is no chance of a civil war between north and south. If you are talking about a Race War, that's just crazy, even if magically united, american blacks are an order of magnitude too weak to fight a civil war.
I disagree. By 1960, the blacks had more than enough of the Klan and were fighting back against them. Such a barbaric action against blacks would make everyone mad, even the most diehard of whites. But the blacks would be downright furious and you'd probably have retaliatory actions against white civilians.
Dudes, there already OTL WAS a massive white southern backlash against civil rights after BROWN, since there was a massive surge in membership of the Klan and other white supremacist bodies like Citizens' Rights Councils and the John Birch Soc. Wouldn't have taken all that much more to have gone to the extent of extreme armed violence.
At one point at Little Rock there was a real fear that the African American students would be lynched.
Had that picture gone around the World, around the US and in fact around the South well one of two things would have happened.
Eisenhower would have been too terrified to do anything more to promote Civil Rights for fear of worse
The reaction would have been so strong that it would have been possible to implement the US Constitution in the former Confederate states (for the first time since 1877)
Had that picture gone around the World, around the US and in fact around the South well one of two things would have happened.
Eisenhower would have been too terrified to do anything more to promote Civil Rights for fear of worse
The reaction would have been so strong that it would have been possible to implement the US Constitution in the former Confederate states (for the first time since 1877)