Your former Attorney General, John Ashcroft

According to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, in 1984 Ashcroft called the St. Louis desegregation plan an "outrage against human decency." In his gubernatorial campaign that year, he widely advertised his fight against desegregation, claiming he had done "everything in his power legally" to fight the plan, and backed up that fact by telling reporters to just ask the judge "who threatened me with contempt."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0103/ridgeway2.php

In 1987, U.S. District Judge Russell Clark ordered a tax increase to "remedy vestiges of segregation" in the Kansas City school system. Ashcroft, who was Missouri governor at the time, called the ruling "appalling judicial activism".
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/23/politics/main266330.shtml

Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft complained in a 1997 lecture of "judicial tyranny" by judges who ruled in favor of school desegregation.
Also from www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/23/politics/main266330.shtml

became the home of the KKK after Democrats passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965....this information doesn't surprise me at all.