"I certainly wouldn’t mind having more independents in Congress and I’d even prefer it, but the idea that a group of intrepid independents are going to solve gridlock in Washington, D.C. is a Hollywood fantasy."

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They had telegraphs during the Civil War, and 100 years after that we have 1000's of telegrams from the Civil Rights movement in libraries around the country. They also used two-way radios, mimeograph machines, mobile dark rooms, etceteras

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We're fortunate to have any pictures of lunch counter sit-ins, those quiet, obscure actions.

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These guys almost inevitably reach for exactly the wrong literary or historical point of reference. It's uncanny.

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Pretty nearly the whole actual point of getting white college students to go to Mississsippi for Freedom Summer was to draw national media attention

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