What was the most racially Progressive community in the 1940s 1950s 1960s?

[SaneDemocrat]

I'm interested in what communities have been always  relatively racially Progressive.

[Pyro]

tbh, the Communist Party.
Further into the 60s, the Black Panther Party.

[RINO Tom]

What does racially progressive mean?

[SaneDemocrat]

Least  racist  towns relative to their time?

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

The klan was active in some areas that you wouldn't expect from a 2018 view of politics.

[twenty42]

Frank Sinatra did a lot to help blacks in the entertainment sector. He boycotted several hotels in the 1950s that refused to lodge Sammy Davis Jr.

[RINO Tom]

Frank Sinatra did a lot to help blacks in the entertainment sector. He boycotted several hotels in the 1950s that refused to lodge Sammy Davis Jr.

And was very conservative, illustrating why the term "racially progressive" is nothing but stroking the ego of self-righteous liberals and politicizing an issue that doesn't fit on a left-right axis.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Frank Sinatra did a lot to help blacks in the entertainment sector. He boycotted several hotels in the 1950s that refused to lodge Sammy Davis Jr.

And was very conservative, illustrating why the term "racially progressive" is nothing but stroking the ego of self-righteous liberals and politicizing an issue that doesn't fit on a left-right axis.

Wasn’t he in a semi-socialist outfit in the forties? Heston marched for civil rights, but was a Stevenson voter.

[Don Vito Corleone]

Frank Sinatra did a lot to help blacks in the entertainment sector. He boycotted several hotels in the 1950s that refused to lodge Sammy Davis Jr.

And was very conservative, illustrating why the term "racially progressive" is nothing but stroking the ego of self-righteous liberals and politicizing an issue that doesn't fit on a left-right axis.

I don't disagree much with your underlying point, but Sinatra didn't become a Republican until the 1970s.

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Frank Sinatra did a lot to help blacks in the entertainment sector. He boycotted several hotels in the 1950s that refused to lodge Sammy Davis Jr.

And was very conservative, illustrating why the term "racially progressive" is nothing but stroking the ego of self-righteous liberals and politicizing an issue that doesn't fit on a left-right axis.

Lmao what? Leaving aside the dubious idea of early Sinatra as 'very conservative' (FDR was his idol), do you deny the validity of the concept of social progress?

[RINO Tom]

Frank Sinatra did a lot to help blacks in the entertainment sector. He boycotted several hotels in the 1950s that refused to lodge Sammy Davis Jr.

And was very conservative, illustrating why the term "racially progressive" is nothing but stroking the ego of self-righteous liberals and politicizing an issue that doesn't fit on a left-right axis.

Lmao what? Leaving aside the dubious idea of early Sinatra as 'very conservative' (FDR was his idol), do you deny the validity of the concept of social progress?

Definitely thought Sinatra had become a Republican by the 1950s (was thinking post-WWII), so my bad on the timing.  No, of course I don't deny that, but conservatives can be responsible for progress, and I reject the idea that "liberalism" naturally pushes for positive progress.  Supporting civil rights could have been (and was) phrased in both conservative and liberal arguments.

[DINGO Joe]

It's earlier than the timeframe your asking for, but there was a rather large coal mining town in Southern Iowa from about 1900-1920 that was basically half black and half immigrant (Swedes and Welsh) that was harmonious for any era.  It's name was Buxton and RINO doesn't even know of it's existence though he lives about an hour away.  After the coal ran out, they tore the town down and everybody left, nothing but farm land today.

http://www.iptv.org/video/story/5046/searching-buxton-full-program

[Orser67]

tbh, the Communist Party.

It seems like OP is asking more for geographic locations than political parties/groups, which unfortunately I can't provide a good answer for. But it's nonetheless absolutely correct that the far-left was the most racially progressive group in the mid-20th century. Henry Wallace's 1948 campaign for president was both a) incredibly progressive on racial issues for the pre-1960s and b)infiltrated by Communists.

From this New Yorker article:

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[Blue3]

I think the OP is basically asking "what was ''''whatever San Francisco is'''' before it was San Francisco?"

[Kingpoleon]

The Rockefeller community?

Also, Frank “The Great” Sinatra had ties to mob bosses, so I’d hardly start throwing him around as an idol.

[All Along The Watchtower]

tbh, the Communist Party.

^

[SingingAnalyst]

The Book of Lists, published in 1977, lists Cambridge, MA as the most racially integrated community in the US.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

The Rockefeller community?

Yeezus.

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Get my cousin’s name out of your mouth.