AHC: Segregation Stays

I was reading the wikipedia article on the Birmingham boycott today and I was left with the impression that the trick would be:

1) Replace Bull Connor with someone more moderate, reasonable and not a walking PR disaster. He did more to discredit segredation than MLK did.

2) Have the anti-segredations be more violent, with rioting instead of peaceful protest and attacks on non-boycotting Blacks. Enough to scare the WASP on the street and more moderate Blacks.

Repeat as necessary for other campaigns.

It was basically a contest for public sympathy.
 
I was reading the wikipedia article on the Birmingham boycott today and I was left with the impression that the trick would be:

1) Replace Bull Connor with someone more moderate, reasonable and not a walking PR disaster. He did more to discredit segredation than MLK did.

2) Have the anti-segredations be more violent, with rioting instead of peaceful protest and attacks on non-boycotting Blacks. Enough to scare the WASP on the street and more moderate Blacks.

Repeat as necessary for other campaigns.

It was basically a contest for public sympathy.

In the TV era caused rapid social change and a change in societal views faster IMHO then anything America had ever seen before. Many historians in general I find vastly underestimate the power of daily video coming into Americans living rooms of the news rather then reading it in the paper on changing social attitudes very quickly.

Its only thing to read in the paper that some bad thing is happening, its a whole different thing to see it on film or on TV and it becomes 'real' to people in a way reading it in the paper doesn't.
 
I know this is an odd theory but what if at some point the leadership in the civil rights movement adopts a pro-segregation view.

IE we want equal rights in terms of voting/etc but we think that the races should be separate to preserve the black community ?

I am not sure how that would evolve but it is an alternative to ponder.
This could be an outgrowth of Accommodationism/The Atlanta Compromise.
 
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