Talk:John E. Rankin

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography: Politics and Government

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group.
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

U.S. Congress Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject U.S. Congress, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United States Congress on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.U.S. CongressWikipedia:WikiProject U.S. CongressTemplate:WikiProject U.S. CongressU.S. Congress articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is about one (or many) person(s).

United States: Mississippi Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	Mississippi portal This article is supported by WikiProject Mississippi (assessed as Low-importance).

Civil Rights Movement Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Civil Rights Movement, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Civil Rights Movement on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Civil Rights MovementWikipedia:WikiProject Civil Rights MovementTemplate:WikiProject Civil Rights MovementCivil Rights Movement articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

To-do list for John E. Rankin:

No to-do list assigned.

WikiProject Civil Rights Movement to do list:

Edit the tasks list

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : All redlinked articles listed at User:Mitchumch/Movement templates#Civil Rights Movement need to be created.
Durham movement (North Carolina)
Greensboro movement (North Carolina) (currently a redirect)
Henry Hezekiah Dee (currently a redirect)
Delano Herman Middleton (currently a redirect)
Charles Eddie Moore (currently a redirect)
Henry Ezekial Smith (currently a redirect)
Cleanup : Rosa Parks, and upgrade to GA status
Black Arts Movement
Collaborate : Tagging all relevant articles with project template.
Expand : And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
Medgar Evers
The Children (Halberstam)
Cambridge movement (civil rights)
Browder v. Gayle
Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Photo : Milton Galamison • J. Charles Jones • Gloria Richardson • Richard Durham • Freedom Riders • Freedom Summer • March Against Fear • Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom • Youth March for Integrated Schools (1958) • Youth March for Integrated Schools (1959) • Birmingham riot of 1963 • 16th Street Baptist Church bombing (image of bombing) • Bloody Tuesday (1964) • Biloxi wade-ins (image of wade-ins) • Tallahassee bus boycott • Tent City (Tennessee) • Memphis sanitation strike (image of actual strike) • Americus movement • Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing • Baton Rouge bus boycott • Orangeburg massacre • Mansfield school desegregation incident • Bloody Monday (Danville)

Untitled

Rankin's complicated involvement with the GI Bill should be included here (Bennett 1996). JeremyToday

Added material. His expression of racism in Congress was offensive, but his enabling discrimination through these federal programs adversely affected many more people in the South. His effect on other programs should also be explained.Parkwells (talk) 15:57, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Bigotry" section

I think this section could use some mention of Rankin's political/legislative actions beyond using racial and anti-Semitic slurs on the House floor: fighting desegregation and anti-lynching bills and interracial marriage, pushing to keep poll taxes that prevented African Americans from voting, supporting the so-called "concentration camp bill" that would have put all Japanese Americans in the entire U.S. mainland and every territory into camp... MartinaDee (talk) 19:36, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agree - too many inflammatory quotes, not much substance. I am going to reduce thees. Rankin (and other Southerners of similar positions) had greater negative effect through their voting in Congress and effect on bills creating national programs; the inflammatory quotes make for lively journalism, but do not provide much substance for this article. The camp bill resulted in most Japanese Americans on the west coast (most of whom were native-born citizens of the US) being put into camps, with many losing their homes and businesses.Parkwells (talk) 15:59, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

POV-check

This article is the most blatant violation of NPOV since Hermann Göring circa 2010. Wikipedia is not a forum for condoning or condemning racism, National Socialism, or John E. Rankin. This article needs either a {{POV-check}} tag, or several obvious and immediate corrections. NOrbeck (talk) 22:07, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

HUAC Commission

Edward G. Robinson should have grabbed Rankin by the nose and repeatedly kicked him in the ass. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.8.14.77 (talk) 06:46, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on John E. Rankin. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 15:14, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Einstein and Franco

"Albert Einstein backed calls for the United States to break off diplomatic relations with Spain's leader Francisco Franco, because the Spanish dictator had been an ally of Adolf Hitler." Spain had NOT been an ally of Germany. Franco's Spanish Nationalist forces got military support from Germany as well as Italy. And Spaniards volunteered in the 'Crusade against Bolshevism', as part of the preventive war of the Axis against the Soviet Union. But Spain was neutral during world war two, refusing to engage on the both the sides of the Axis as well as the Allies. --105.8.0.217 (talk) 14:18, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]