- Former Ku Klux Klansman
- In the early 1970s, Byrd pushed to have the Senate's main office building named after Sen. Richard Russell, a leading opponent of anti-lynching legislation who the West Virginia Democrat called "my mentor."
- Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act for 14 straight hours. And three years after he said he'd left his white-sheeted brethren behind, he wrote to Georgia's Grand Imperial Wizard, urging, "The Klan is needed today as never before."
- Sen. Byrd was also a fierce opponent of desegregating the military, complaining in one letter: "I should rather die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds."
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Thursday, January 20, 2005
Democratic KLAN
Let's see Senator Byrd has stepped up as one of the point men for the democrat's assault on Condi Rice - a prominent, intelligent, and successful African-American women. Let us review Senator Byrd's qualifications (via NewsMax.com).
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