The John Birch Society and the Civil Rights Campaign

The campaign against Justice Earl Warren convinced many pundits and politicians that the John Birch Society was just as bad as the totalitarian communists they opposed. An editorial in the Chicago Sun Times described the content of many letters sent by their followers as evidence of brainwashing. South Carolina Democrat Mendel Rivers said they were justified because the Supreme Court's decision in Brown versus the Board of Education was effectively the death knell of the Constitution. "I'm just a simple son and Democrat, but I think slavery is a great idea"