Heston participated in civil rights marches and demonstrations and arranged a meeting between Martin Luther King Jr. and
officials of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees to discuss opening the union to blacks. He later became an
opponent of affirmative action. Why did he make such a complete about face?
In the late 1990s he began to speak about "white pride" and "a great civil war, a cultural war " that he said threatened the country
and white supremacists such as David Duke praised him for it.


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