Senator James Eastland's 1954 hearings on communist infiltration are discussed. Eastland targeted white Southern liberals like Virginia Durr, viewing them as "traitors" to segregation. The hosts reveal that Durr's brother-in-law was Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, a former KKK member. They argue that the civil rights movement was often caught in an intra-racial war between aristocratic white liberals and "common" white segregationists.