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The 1948 equivalent of “All Lives Matter.” Shortly after President Truman proposed a Civil Rights bill, this letter writer worried that such a bill would grant “special” rights to Black people and “stir up hatred and strife.” He called instead for a bill “to protect the rights of us all.”

Followed a decade later by Buckley's "Why the South Must Prevail" in the National Review.

William F. Buckley and National Review's vile race stance: Everything you need to know about conservatives and civil rightswww.salon.com Remembering the night William F. Buckley took his genteel racism to Cambridge--and left destroyed by James Baldwin