News, 'That man's terrible': Secret Jackie Kennedy tapes reveal her disgust over Martin Luther King's

[scatman]

My observations:

1. King was not well liked by most, if not a lot, at the time, so Jackie's views, as someone said, were not uncommon.

2. Given that she is still grieving over the murder of her husband, she's just lettin' it out....on everyone! And I'm sure you have French discussion boards with 5+ page threads on how De Gaulle was an "egomaniac"!

[CAVA1990]

My parents didn't like him or the Kennedys so would have been amused by this.

[Lucario]

Originally Posted by CAVA1990

I'm talking about Southern California, bastion of the John Birch Society then. They were second to no Southern state in their views on minority rights.

Though Jim Crow wasn't the law of the land there as in the South proper, many Southern migrants from Texas and Louisiana and Mississippi and their descendants who settled Southern California brought racism and the culture of the South there with them. Thousands of Black people moved West from the same areas between the 1920s and 1970s, but in some ways for them the West wasn't much different than the South.

[CAVA1990]

Originally Posted by Lucario

Though Jim Crow wasn't the law of the land there as in the South proper, many Southern migrants from Texas and Louisiana and Mississippi and their descendants who settled Southern California brought racism and the culture of the South there with them. Thousands of Black people moved West from the same areas between the 1920s and 1970s, but in some ways for them the West wasn't much different than the South.

Good observation. Also Oklahoma and Arkansas (Okies and Arkies) during the 30s. Could be why living in Virginia never felt that foreign to me.