The Democrats
- Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
- Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
- Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
- Democrats fought to keep blacks in slavery and away from the polls, and they started the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize them.
- Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
- Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
- Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
- Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
- Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
- Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
- Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
- Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protestors were fighting.
- Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
- Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
- Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
- Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
- Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
- Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
- Democrat President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
- Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission
And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988
Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:
a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP
- Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
- Republicans founded the HCBU’s and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
- Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
- Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
- Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
- Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
- Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
- Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.
6 comments:
Saw your post on Gateway, thought I would stop by and check out your blog *g*
This post of yours is Exactly why the Left doesn't want people learning History. It is a battle we are not doing well in, in the colleges across the US, just now.
Keep posting!
"Was" being the keyword here. That the Republicans had all these insights and abandoned them is one of the most unfortunate stories of US political history.
Following the Civil War, the Republican party was the liberal party of the United States and the Democrats were very conservative. Throughout the years the parties have shifted ideologies into the party platforms known today. In effect, the modern Republican party has become analogous to the Democratic party of the late nineteenth century, espousing the conservative views and resistance to change that was a common viewpoint of past democrats. The democratic party, on the other hand, has embraced reform and was at the forefront of the civil rights movement. Ever hear of JFK? He was a democrat, and he was heavily invested in civil rights. Good try, though.
Oh, and by the late 1800's, no one party was particularly interested in helping blacks. Republicans recognized the potential to form strong electoral backing via the newly-enfranchised blacks. Their actions on behalf of blacks were done largely to promote their party, not through a benevolent sense of goodwill.
History is fun :)
I love how the Democrat response is always, "umm ya those were the Republicans of yesterday and the racists left the Democrat party and became Republicans"
lol Trolls, the real racism in this country has always been in the Democrat party.
Do you realize that in USA 2014, the only party attacking the civil rights of minorities, including black people, is the Republican party? As well as attacking the rights of women to have abortion, the rights of immigrants, the civil rights of homosexual people - AND demonizing the poor, demonizing Muslims, demonizing homosexuals.
The only thing that has happened is that the labels have been switched, between Republican and Democrat.
In time they may well be removed, replaced by terms like conservative and progressive.
Absolutely learn your history - if the Republicans of 2014 DID know their history, they might NOT be trying to hard to repeat it now.
Looking back through history I sure don't see the Republican Party behaving the way the Democrat Party did for generations, sorry. Lynchings, intimidation, race riots, taking back reparations that had already been granted by Republicans, favoring Caucasian immigration, black codes, segregation, boycotting Black owned businesses, forming the KKK, the Red Shirts, the Louisiana white league, the white camellias (all white supremacy groups formed by Democrats,) rape, murder, voter intimidation of Blacks and Republicans at the polls, these were tactics of the Democrat Party all the way into the 1960's, at least...the Republican Party doesn't hold a candle to the racism of the Democrat Party, going back to their inceptions. The way it looks to me, the Republican Party fought for equality and Civil Rights while Dems opposed them, then, when the work was finished, the Democrat Party decided to bill itself as the party of equality, all for POC's VOTES. Now, the Dems BS minorities for our vote, claiming Repubs are all racist, when they're not. If 75 million Repubs were all racist, we'd see a helluva lot more racist activity in the USA, sorry...Dems think that we minorities are stupid enough to believe their BS...how racist...
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