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Which was indeed said by opponents of civil rights at the time. And people were arrested on that basis:

> December 13th 1954: White civil rights activist Carl Braden was convicted of sedition in Louisville, Kentucky on this day. His crime? He and his wife Anne purchased a home in an all-white neighborhood and then almost immediately sold it to an African-American.

http://todayinclh.com/?event=civil-rights-activist-carl-brad...




Its fascinating how the civil rights movement changed the enforcement of sedition law but did not lead to the repeal.




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