"Peter K." wrote:
>
> >The tremendous power of the Civil Rights Movement has to be the major
> >source -- but without the Cold War, would that hostility & reluctance
> >have been changed into something more sinister?
> >
> >Carrol
>
> It's been 11 years since the US buried the Soviet Union and
> declared victory in the Cold War. Don't you think "they" would
> have gotten around to creating a police state by now?
I was speaking _only_ of the response of the federal government to the attempt by state governments to suppress the civil rights movement. I don't understand what your question is about. You are familiar, are you not, with u.s. history between the end of Reconstruction and the partial success of the Civil Rights Movement during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administration?
It would not have created a "police state" (how in the hell did that concept get into this thread?) for Eisenhower "reluctantly" to decide that he had no power to send troops to Little Rock? That would certainly have been "more sinister" than Truman merely dragging his feet on integrating the army.
Carrol