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What was Senator Barry Goldwater's deal? He founded the Arizona NAACP and National Guard (which he personally desegregated 2 years before the rest of the military), but was publicly against desegregation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. What gives for these conflicting actions and attitudes?

by /u/DrHENCHMAN in /r/AskHistorians

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