You can't ignore that the 1960's happened.
The beatings and riots in the 1960's happened because too many Southerners were adamant that blacks were a 'lesser' form of life.
As one who spent his early years in Birmingham in the 60's, I can attest that my Republican family was vehemently anti-Wallace. A few years later, I would watch white Boston mothers throwing bricks at school buses loaded with black elementary school children. Never saw anything like that in Birmingham.
Today, Cleveland, Boston, and Chicago top the list of most segregated cities. Racism isn't a Southern thing. It exists from Washington state to Florida, from California to Maine.
Here is a list of riots that occurred in the US during the 1960s. Only three of these occurred in the South.
1962 – Ole Miss riot 1962, September 30, University of Mississippi
1963 – Cambridge riot 1963, June 14, Cambridge, Maryland
1964 – Harlem race riot, July 18–23 (New York City, United States)
1964 – Rochester 1964 race riot, July 24–25 (Rochester, New York, United States)
1964 – Jersey City 1964 race riot,[25] August 2–4 (Jersey City, New Jersey, United States)
1964 – Elizabeth 1964 race riot,[25] August 11–13 (Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States)
1964 – Dixmoor 1964 race riot[25] August 16–17 (Chicago, United States)
1964 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot August 28–30
1965 – Watts riots, August 1965, (Los Angeles, United States)
1966 – Division Street Riots, June 12–14 (Humboldt Park, Chicago, United States)
1966 – Hough Riots, July 1966 (Cleveland, United States)
1966 – Compton's Cafeteria Riot, August 1966 (San Francisco, United States)
1966 – Benton Harbor Riot, August–September 1966 (Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States)
1966 – Sunset Strip curfew riots (Los Angeles, United States)
1967 – Tampa riots of 1967, June 1967 (Tampa, Florida, United States)
1967 – Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27 (Buffalo, New York, United States)
1967 – 1967 Newark riots, July 12–18, 1967 (Newark, New Jersey, United States)
1967 – 1967 Plainfield riots, July 14–20, 1967 (Plainfield, New Jersey, United States)
1967 – 12th Street Riot, July 23–27, 1967 (Detroit, United States)
1967 – Cairo riot, July 17 (Cairo, Illinois, United States)
1967 – Winston-Salem 1967 race riot, November 2–4, 1967 (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States)[26]
1968 – 1968 Washington, D.C. riots, April 1968 (Washington, D.C., United States)
1968 – Baltimore riot of 1968, April 6–12 (Baltimore, United States)
1968 – Chicago riot of 1968 April 7–14 (Chicago, United States)
1968 – Kansas City riot of 1968, April 1968 (Kansas City, Missouri, United States)
1968 – Louisville riots of 1968, May 27, (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
1968 – Glenville Shootout, (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
1968 – Wooster Ave. riot of July 1968, (Akron, Ohio, United States)
1968 – 1968 Democratic National Convention riot, August 1968, (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
1969 – Stonewall Riots, June 1969, (New York City, United States)
1969 – Days of Rage, Oct. 1969, (Chicago, United States)
1960s – Berkeley riots, a series of riots in (Berkeley, California)