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Jun 23, 2020 · John C. Stennis was a U.S. senator from Mississippi who fought against racial equality during four decades in office. In 1988, a year before his retirement, President Ronald Reagan...
Nov 26, 2007 · The answer turned out to be John Stennis, one of twentieth century America's most admired white supremacists, whose legacy as a titan of the appropriations process is celebrated through such ...
Stennis was a zealous supporter of racial segregation. Along with James Eastland, he supported the Dixiecrat ticket in 1948 headed by Strom Thurmond, [1] and signed the Southern Manifesto, which called for massive resistance to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.
The subcommittee ignored the mountain of evidence Zumwalt presented that showed systematic and pervasive racism in the Navy. Zumwalt still prevailed, however, with his seminal directive, Z-Gram Number 66, on equal opportunity, but the battle continues. Stennis’s record championing white supremacy is long.
It boils down to this: Southern legislators, including Mississippi Senator John Stennis, enacted an unwritten but effective policy blocking nominations of Black candidates to the military academies for decades. President Harry S. Truman integrated the armed forces in 1948 by executive order, a move Senator Stennis decried.
John Stennis represented Mississippi in the Senate from 1947 to 1989. More restrained than his predecessor, Theodore Bilbo, Stennis carried on Bilbo’s segregationist, white supremacist agenda using the coded language of “states’ rights.”
Apr 27, 2009 · In February 1970, the governor of Louisiana appealed to citizens of his state to fund a nationwide television campaign calling for equal treatment between northern and southern schools. Most important, that same month, U.S. Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi carried the fight to the floor of the Senate.
