I saw a brilliant presentation last night.

[Fovea]

The author of An American Insurrection, Wm. Doyle, was at UMKC last night, courtesy of the history dept.

I ordered his book.

http://www.anamericaninsurrection.com/news_40th_djoirnal.htm


Wow. Amazing stuff. It was quite disturbing because it re-iterated for me how incredibly violent our society really is, when you shake it's evil status quo from lethargy.

I am more pessimistic than ever that we will get through the decade without a second civil war, but that is not the author's fault.

[bobbieinok]

1. thanks for this info/reminder

Eisenhower calls up 1000 (!!!) paratroopers to enforce school desegregation in the high school in Little Rock --- fall 1957

JFK calls up 10,000 (!!!) troops to Oxford MS to enforce the desegregation of the U of MS law school --- fall 1962

Both of these desegregations were ordered by the courts.

Scalia and others have been saying for some time that the US courts have been wrong for the last 40-50 years. It's clear why they think so.

[Ksec]

2. so how about some stuff

he wrote and talked about? Im interested. Maybe you could give me a sampling?

[Fovea]

3. He discussed James Meredith

who is a problematic hero to the rest of the Civil Rights movement.

But he spent a lot of time discussing elements of the battle of Oxford, MS. Really, it was a state encouraged insurrection against the govt of the United States. And it resulted in what might be considered either the last battle of the first civil war, or the first battle of the next one.

It involved MS State Highway Patrol officers being stopped at the last minute on their way to join the hundreds of segregationists shooting at, throwing rocks at, and just plain assaulting Federal Marshals, and whose aftermath included a raid on the Frat House of a future Republican Senator, by the FBI and a cache of weapons seized to see if any matched murder weapons used in the battle, if I remember the lecture correctly.

It involved racist groups from as far away as Missouri.


He talked about a recent gathering of all the participants.

Basically, if you have seen the movie Mississipi Burning, you have seen a very mild rendition of a minor side engagement, of which the gettysburg was Oxford Mississippi.

Go look at the site ...


http://www.anamericaninsurrection.com/news_40th_djoirnal.htm

[Ksec]

4. sounds interesting. thanks nt