"Timeline: The Civil Rights Movement in America"Archived 2015-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, "This Honorable Body:" African American Legislators in 19th Century Tennessee, 2013, Tennessee Department of State. Note: Diane Nash asked him, "Do you feel it is wrong to discriminate against a person solely on the basis of their race or color?" West said "yes,' later explaining, "It was a moral question – one that a man had to answer, not a politician."
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"Timeline: The Civil Rights Movement in America"Archived 2015-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, "This Honorable Body:" African American Legislators in 19th Century Tennessee, 2013, Tennessee Department of State. Note: Diane Nash asked him, "Do you feel it is wrong to discriminate against a person solely on the basis of their race or color?" West said "yes,' later explaining, "It was a moral question – one that a man had to answer, not a politician."
