McKeithen also later became a national spokesperson for the movement to oppose integration by busing school children.
Mr. Birdwell's own parents, like many people then, also opposed integration, he said.
More than 60 percent of Americans opposed racial integration when President Truman issued his executive order.
It has long been the settled policy of his party to oppose greater European integration at all costs.
But she has opposed further political and economic integration, fearing that as a movement toward a federal Europe with socialist tendencies.
With about 60,000 members, mostly in the South, many people knew the group because it opposed racial integration during the 1950s and 1960s.
Instead, currents of various nationalistic tendencies had proliferated and were increasingly active in opposing European integration.
However, the majority of white Georgians continued to oppose integration.
For those reasons, he says, "most military leaders still silently oppose integration of combat units."
Students opposed the random housing solution not, as you suggest, because they opposed racial integration.