• jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    It started with Jerry Falwell standing to lose money from desegregation. Here is an article / short podcast from NPR that lays most of it on the table.There is more to the story, but I was unable to find a good source in the short time I was willing to search.

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      2 months ago

      Phyllis Schlafly started all this back when Jerry Falwell was still fumbling around.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, that’s part of it, but I’m not willing to post stuff in this kind of context without a ready source.