William F. Buckley did not support the Civil Rights movement because he did not believe protests were appropriate for the cause. Was this a typical conservative view in the 1950s and 1960s?

May I question the assumption behind the question? William F. Buckley didn't support the Civil Rights movement because he was a racist. He outright stated that the white race was superior.^^1 His defence of that statement was around the idea that it was due to sociological reasons that the white race was superior, and thus time needed to be given for PoC to catch up.^^2 I'll let you make your own conclusion, but frankly this seems to be deeply backwards, both in that it suggests you have to earn rights and in that it removes the possibility of 'advancement' for PoC.

^^1 John B. Judis, William F. Buckley Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p. 138.

^^2 Deborah Soloman, 'The Way We Live Now, 7/11/04: Questions for William F. Buckley; Conservatively Speaking', The New York Times Magazine <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/magazine/way-we-live-now-7-11-04-questions-for-william-f-buckley-conservatively-speaking.html> [Accessed 17 May 2017].