Question

were americans in the 1960s terrified of the blacks' mistreatment?

Answer 1

Black Americans were.

Answer 2

That is a disgusting misrepresentation of the question. There was some discontent between blacks and Caucasians but it was only a handful of big city businesses who had the Whites only signs.

Answer 3

If you went to a small town blacks were treated the same as anyone else. Don't let them fool you, those democrats are evilly racist.

Answer 4

It was only in certain places the harsh discrimination happened, and when it did it was all over the news as if it was happening all over the country.

Answer 5

Whites only signs were not the only method of representation.

By the 1960s, many Americans could see the inherent inequality. They could see that change was needed. As the events continued to happen, more and more of America became aware of the problems. But to say that Americans were terrified, I don't think so.

Answer 6

@orwell84 A good historian has to go with the facts presented. There is a mountain of evidence to show the racism and segregation our nation suffered though.
You are entitlied to your opinion but not your own facts.

Answer 7

I don't want to argue with you @wwhitlock but you don't know what you are talking about.

Answer 8

When you have evidence to support your claims, you may be taken a little more seriously. You have know idea who I am or what my training in history is.
Suffice it to say, you'd better do a lot more reading on the subject before you start to question my veracity.

Answer 9

Where is your evidence wwhitlock?

Answer 10

Journal entries, memoirs, autobiography, newspaper accounts, oral histories, photographs and some personal memory.
If you are seriously interested in learning, there is plenty for you to benefit from. But I suspect you are looking to prove some political point.

Answer 11

Where did all of those Journal entries, memoirs, autobiography, newspaper accounts, oral histories, and photographs come from?

Answer 12

@Orwell84 @wwhitlock you guys are both right in the ways that you think, but let's not start another argument

Answer 13

Why hadn't we as such a racist country side with Nazi Germany in WW2?

Answer 14

@Orwell84 because of course, the us was joining the war to test their new weapons and of course start a whole lot of controversy

Answer 15

The US barely had a military before the war, the government requested $300,000,000 to even go to war, remember "buy war bonds."