civil rights

Governor Wallace sat idly by, listening as his chicken-shit lawyers and confidants gave him a spew of nonsense. The only things Wallace could glean from the empty words of these men was simple, a march would be conducted by a bunch of uppity pastors. Some Negro queers were going to be making...

In this scenario, the Confederate States manage to do the impossible, and win their independence from the United States. Don't ask me how, because that's not what this scenario is about, let's just say they perform better than expected, drag out the war and Union public support for an expensive...

I’m curious because i feel like alternate 1960 presidential candidates is under explored/talked about and an election between these two in 1960 seems really interesting but I’m not very knowledgeable of what the political environment was like to have a solid idea on what a presidential race...

Slavery. One of the darkest marks on American history. In the years leading up to the American Civil War, there were multiple efforts by abolitionists - and even African Americans themselves - to abolish slavery. However, the abolition of slavery was way too late for many African Americans - and...

(I wasn’t sure where to put this so I decided pre-1900.) From 1865 onwards (or sometime earlier if you want too) and beyond make the Civil Rights movements and other similar progressive movements relating to civil and human rights (African Americans, women, native Americans, Asian Americans...

Let's say that, in this alternate timeline, the Civil Rights Act of 1964's prohibitions on racial discrimination only apply to public institutions, rather than to both public and private institutions. Let's also say that no federal legislation prohibiting private discriminations on the basis of...

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/pinned.htm Not exactly a very well known event but after the civil rights act Strom and Ralph wrestled over a vote about the community relations service. Strom got him onto the ground but let go after Ralph eventually yielded when the head of...

I personally believe it would be cool if this type of union was able to happen but unfortunately I can't think of a way for this to happen. Is this timeline even possible without it being ASB? My main goal is given Koreans Equal rights in the the Empire and Possibly not have Japan expand into China.

In recent years — to some extent ever since reading Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) by Mary Dudziak — I have been interested in alternate histories where the United States’ racial policies lead it to be subject...

So I'm still nailing down a lot of things, but I have enough that I wanted some feedback. Staring with a plausibility check on the POD itself. POD: The 18.5 minutes of Nixon's Watergate tapes doesn't get erased, and it's damning. In this ATL, it's Nixon and Haldeman discussing the fact that...

This is a scenario that is not meant to be entirely realistic. It is also not meant to portray MLK as anything other than a strong and great man. This scenario takes place in a world where Dr. King’s beliefs were not as strong as they were in our world. He is, in this scenario, less able to...

The POD has to be 1948 or later, and the voting percentage has to be 60% or higher. Beyond obvious ASB stuff, any explanation is allowed.

Let’s say the Chinese offensive in the Korean War is a complete disaster and the US/UN coalition annihilates them and holds serve in Korea. How does the US domestic political landscape change? Truman would be a sure fire victory in 1952 as I don’t think Eisenhower would run in this scenario...

Let's say a strong voting rights act is passed by Kennedy or LBJ (because of early Kennedy killing) in 1961. How much of the political landscape does that change particularly in the south? Would the dixiecrats be able to use the threat of going third party or party switching since the black vote...

What if the US bureaucracy wasn't segregated in the 1910s? Say Woodrow Wilson doesn't get elected or that he doesn't impose Jim Crow in the civil service for whatever reason. How would race relations and civil rights evolve from then on? Could something like the Civil Rights Act be passed...

Jeff Greenfield wrote a great book about some potential alternate histories and one was about if in 1960 a few weeks after winning the presidency Richard Pavlick who in real life almost killed president-elect Kennedy in a suicide bombing actually decided to go through with it and succeed. But...

Since this is the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries I'll put the WI here. In 1896, decades after the end of Reconstruction, the state of North Carolina elected Daniel Lindsay Russell, a Republican, to the governorship by a margin of less than ten thousand votes. Russell, who had a majority in...

Though Harry Truman is often regarded as a good, or even great President by many historians, he never is in contention for the greatest US president, or even the top-five greatest. Your challenge is to change that and have Truman be considered by most to be in the top-five presidents or even the...

Hello. I am going to post story lines and vignettes from my timeline Jefferson's Anti-Slavery Crisis. (You can find it in my signature). I had a blast writing the lore, and I am thinking of writing more stories. Here is the first. I. Crisis at the Continental Congress The delegates from...

Earlier this afternoon [Melbourne time], I was reading an article about how lucky the United States was that Brown v. Board of Education actually was decided as it was. Titled ‘Brown v. Board of Education Came Very Close To Being a Dark Day In American History’, and written by Ian Millhiser...