Analysis Of Will Maslow: Civil Rights Legislation And The Fight For Equality
Adding to this victim-blaming perspective is Will Maslow. He wrote Civil rights legislation and the fight for equality, 1862-1952, which was published in 1953; it looks specifically at the implications of proposals and support of anti-Klan bills. To Maslow, being white wasn’t enough to protect you from the Klan. If somebody were to propose legislation to help advance African Americans, or even support a bill of the kind, they were putting themselves on the hit-list. The paranoia among Southern whites was so intense that if somebody didn’t publicly denounce a sympathetic bill, they were immediately categorized as “one of them.” The mentality among whites in the South was overwhelmingly “they did this to themselves.” After repeated filibustering