The Manipulative Party of The K.K.K. And The TRUE History Of The Republican’s Stance On Human Rights.
The Manipulative Party of The K.K.K. And The TRUE History of The Republican’s Stance on Human Rights.
By Jae Eubanks & Researched by Tammy Dillingham
We all know the Ku Klux Klan’s main mission was to keep black Americans subservient; to keep black Americans from running for political office; to keep black Americans economically depressed, by also intimidating and even murdering white Republicans or any other so-called “black sympathizer” who tried to do business with the newly freed black Americans.
Who were/are the KKK? The Ku Klux Klan was formed in 1865 after our Civil War by the same people—leftist members of the Democrat Party—who had first claimed succession from the Union over fears Abraham Lincoln would keep his promise to disband slavery, with Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest serving as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
The leftist Democrats, fearful of losing their slaves, fired the first shot of the Civil War, one meant to keep slavery alive in the south, and one that ended with a death toll of an estimated 650,000 to 850,000 Americans.
The K.K.K. was the far left Democrats’ after-war “social club,” designed to keep the far-leftist belief (one most similar to that of Adolf Hitler) that “NOT all men are created equal,” in order to keep black Americans oppressed physically, emotionally, and economically. And the leftists have been doing it ever since.
Our leftist neighbors would have us believe that white supremacy is a far-right belief. Just as they’ve tried to convince us that the Nazis were far-right. History and common sense, however, tell us quite a different story on both counts.
Which is where the Big Leftist Lie came into play: “We switched sides,” they say. No, the two parties did not switch sides. Democrats are still the party of slavery. Still the party of Jim Crow laws, still the party of white supremacists and the K.K.K. And no, we didn’t simultaneously all jump in the air on day, with Republicans landing on the left and Democrats landing on the right.
This lie came about because leftists understood their abhorrent history and racist philosophies were rooted in bigotry, and they wanted a fresh start without making any actual positive changes to their party, because…they needed votes to stay in power.
Many people bought into this lie, until it was proven false. So, the leftists scrambled for another means of subterfuge: Hiding anything that points to their own racist actions. They turned to manipulation and have been mastering it ever since. They’ve mastered it so well, in fact, that they have many people voting for their own oppression, believing they’re voting for change.
So now, keeping their same racist ideology, but using a different method–sugar instead of vinegar–the leftists want all reminders of their racist past removed from history, with statues of the Democrat Confederate war “heroes” being toppled, portraits of Democrat Confederate “leaders” being removed from The House by leftists such as Nancy Pelosi, enabling the Democrats to continue their push of this false narrative they’ve been foisting on our school children, by removing all reminders of the evil they’ve caused, while pointing the finger of evil elsewhere.
But history speaks for itself. Racism may come in all colors, and racists may vote either side of the aisle, typically driven by factors such as economics, religious beliefs, entitlements, jobs. However, white supremacy has always belonged to the Democrat party. Just as the Nazi party has always been far-left, regardless of the lies they teach our children today.
You see, one of the main differences between right-wing and left-wing thinking is the size of government. Left-wing ideology is for increasing government’s role in our lives (socialism, communism, Marxism, etc.), with government growing larger the further it goes to the left. It suggests we cannot govern ourselves and need elected officials to help us navigate our way through life.
While right-wing ideology is for minimizing government’s role (capitalism, more personal freedom), with the government taking a smaller role the further we go to the right, with a belief we are the rightful captains of our own ships and should have as little government interference in our lives as possible.
As we all know, Hitler was far from a capitalist. He couldn’t have been far-right, as he wasn’t on the right at all. He based much of his tyranny on a perceived hierarchy within humanity, deciding some races are meant to rule over others—much like the leftists with their penchant for slavery.
As a child, I was taught in school that Nazism was far-left. Not as far as communism, but close. Things change, however, depending on who runs the system and who updates “the Wiki” So, Adolf Hitler was erroneously re-dubbed by many leftists, this time as “far-right,” for one simple reason: Leftists have decided to avoid the negative connotations of their true beliefs and instead teach lies to our children, telling our children that it’s the other guy’s fault.
Again, look where the Nazi Party falls on the political spectrum between “more government” and “less government” and you’ll know exactly where to place Nazism. (hint: regardless of what the newer definitions added all over the Internet say–brought into play by our leftists teachers and Wiki editors–it doesn’t fit on the right).
The “Union Army,” under the command of our first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, fought long and hard to stop the practice of slavery in this country, with over 360,000 Union soldiers giving up their lives to stop this barbaric practice.
Do you know of any other country or political party willing to wage war and risk hundreds of thousands of their own lives to stop the slavery of others, losing countless lives on the battlefields, all in the interest of equality for all people? These Union men didn’t fight and die for themselves. They fought and died so others might live free.
Before this, slavery had been practiced by and on every race in existence. Unbeknownst to some, slavery existed in the Americas long before Columbus sailed the ocean blue… Many Native American tribes practiced some form of slavery before 1492 and long after.
So, we have hundreds of thousands of Union men who died to end slavery in American. Died so others could live free.
The leftists, however, would have us believe we are a racist country.
And yes, racism exists. It is alive and well in the Democrat party even after all these years. If you need an example of the racist, elitist attitudes of the far-left, just ask your leftist friends to explain why Voter ID is racist. Most won’t realize just how racist they sound as they start listing off these imaginary reasons.
The Confederate Army was under the control of the newly elected Democrat president of the south, Jefferson Davis, who had won the southern states without opposition.
Lincoln would soon be assassinated for his efforts just five days after the war ended, murdered in cold blood by the Confederate and slave-owner sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth…Leaving us with yet another Civil War casualty. This time, it would be our 16th President of The United States of America, the very man who brought us together to end slavery in America.
After the leftist Democrats lost the Civil War, their K.K.K. “social club” began as a way to devise and pull off illegal methods to murder, intimidate, harass, and subdue the rights of innocent Americans based on skin color and political affiliation. While the leftists could say and do as they wished, limitations were placed on the speech and actions of those whom they felt were beneath them. Sound familiar?
Did you know? The abolishment of Slavery almost happened in 1776. When Jefferson wrote the first draft of our Declaration of Independence. 11 out of the original 13 colonies agreed to his first draft that was fiercely against the practice of slavery. Before they voted on the wording of the declaration, they all agreed that it must be decided upon unanimously. And so, with “No” votes from South Carolina and Georgia, those words were removed and slavery continued until the civil war. However Jefferson made sure to add the famous words we all know to the final draft, that “We hold these truths to be self evident, All Men Are Created Equal”
As the left tries to erase America’s history and disparage nearly everything about our nation’s founding, Glenn Beck set the record straight about the Declaration of Independence, what it really says, and why he believes it is the “greatest mission statement of all time.”
“This wasn’t found until 1947; the original draft of the Declaration was found in a bunch of Thomas Jefferson’s writings, in a box in the Library of Congress,” Glenn said. “This takes everything that you have learned about Thomas Jefferson and turns it upside down. It also explains why we didn’t eliminate slavery. It also explains that our Founders felt passionately about slavery, that they tried to end slavery. I want to read just this paragraph to you. This changes absolutely everything.”
Glenn Beck
Have you been told to “check your privilege” lately? Been told your opinion doesn’t matter unless you agree with their opinion? Been called “racist” simply for being conservative? Or because you believe all lives matter? Or for no reason other than your skin color?
Yep…Supporting the party that freed the slaves, according to our very twisted friends of the far-left, is now considered racist.
The K.K.K. particularly targeted black American Republicans—the only party that welcomed newly freed slaves—who sought political office after the Civil War, and black men who dared to approach a white woman.
If you were a white Republican, you were also a target of the K.K.K.
Why?
Because Republicans had fought a war to stop slavery, then pushed forward to enact laws confirming equal rights for all, regardless of race. Because of this, white Republicans who treated their black brothers and sisters as equals, were hated and hunted down by members of the far-left K.K.K. Their crimes that made them targets of the K.K.K? Daring to recognize former slaves as their peers and equals.
The leftists were against equal rights for the black American community. Fact. (see links below)
The leftists were and still are on a mission to keep black Americans economically depressed. Fact. (see links below)
Don’t believe it?
Can you name a single far-left Democrat stronghold where black Americans in general are not living in abject poverty? Name one far-left Democrat city where crime in black communities doesn’t run utterly rampant?
If crime can be controlled to a much better extent in Republican run cities, why doesn’t this hold true for far-left Democrat run cities? And since this is common knowledge, why do those who live in such areas continue to vote Democrat, only to spend a lifetime in poverty, crime, and misery?
The simple answer to this is: The far-left do not protect their black communities. They exploit them.
Consider this: The K.K.K., even after laws were enacted to counter their heinous illegal activities, continued to operate almost uninhibited in the Democrat occupied south, murdering black Americans and the white Republicans who stood up for equality, effectively building a wall of protection around them.
Located in the south and surrounded by sympathizers, i.e. Democrats and far-left racists, the K.K.K. carried the general sentiments of the Democrat party, were members of the Democrat party, and were protected by the Democrat party. And being in the south, were surrounded by mostly those of the Democrat party, making them almost untouchable. They operated not under the rule of law, but by mob rule.
One of the Clinton’s admitted political heros and friends was Senator Robert C. Byrd. From Wikipedia – Robert Byrd was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he later said he officially left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group’s Imperial Wizard stating “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Byrd attempted to explain or defend his former membership in the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.[1] Byrd, a Democrat, eventually became his party leader in the Senate. Byrd later said joining the Klan was his “greatest mistake,”[2] and after his death, the NAACP released a statement praising Byrd, acknowledging his former affiliation with the Klan and saying that he “became a champion for civil rights and liberties” and “came to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda”.[3] In a 2001 interview, Byrd used the term “white niggers” twice during a national television broadcast. The full quote ran as follows: “My old mom told me, ‘Robert, you can’t go to heaven if you hate anybody.’ We practice that. There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I’m going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I’d just as soon quit talking about it so much.” Byrd later apologized for the phrase and admitted that it “has no place in today’s society,” and did not clarify the intended meaning of the term in his context.
To this day, the far-left continues to be the party of “mob rule,” making mob demands: threatening to close the businesses of owners who disagree on social issues or vote conservative; showing no respect for boundaries and borders; and infringing upon the rights of others. This has been a constant since before the Republican party came into being.
The Democrat party hasn’t changed. It’s reminiscent of that “lipstick on a pig” analogy. Sadly, a lot of good-hearted people buy into it. And some Democrat presidents were good presidents, in spite of their party affiliation.
The Republicans and Democrats didn’t switch sides. They didn’t all one day decide to stand facing each other, then jump over to the opposites’ sides. We see the same leftist mentality running their show. They’ve just learned how to dress it up better, manipulate the people a bit more, sell their snake oil to unsuspecting people…Put a little lipstick on it.
***For more information regarding the history of the Republican Party’s consistence stance for Civil rights & equality for all, beginning with its 1854 inception, and the racist opposition from the Democrat Party, we’ve made a comprehensive list from various verified Internet sources, along with links, for those interested.
***1854: The Republican Party is formed to “stop the spread of slavery.” The Democratic Party is decidedly…”Pro-Slavery”
***March 20, 1854: Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party
***Stephen Douglas, Democratic Party Leader authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
***May 30, 1854: Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party
***June 16, 1854: Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party.
***July 6, 1854: First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
***February 11, 1856: Republican Montgomery Blair argues before US Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in the Republican President Lincoln’s cabinet.
***February 22, 1856: First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies.
***May 22, 1856: For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover.
***March 6, 1957 Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no Rights “which any white man was bound to respect.”
***October 13, 1856: During Lincoln-Douglas debates, US Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: ‘I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 Presidential nominee
October 25, 1858: U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation.
**June 4, 1860: Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery.
***1861: Abraham Lincoln, Republican, is elected President.
*Most Democratic Party Controlled States Secede from the Union…in Protest.
***April 7, 1862: President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade
***April 16, 1862: President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; Republican Support: 83% Democrats Support: 17%
***July 2, 1862: U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act, establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as George Washington Carver.
***July 17, 1862: Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free.”
***August 19, 1862: Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation.
***August 25, 1862: President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of African-American soldiers in U.S. Army.
***September 22, 1862: Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
January 1, 1863: Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect.
The Democratic Party continues to Support Slavery.
***February 9, 1864: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery.
***June 15, 1864: Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War.
***June 28, 1864: Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Act.
***January 31, 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition; Republican Party Support: 100% Democratic Party Support: 23%
***March 3, 1865: Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves.
***April 8, 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate; Republican support 38 votes in favor, Democrat support 6 votes in favor.
***June 19, 1865: On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation.
***November 22, 1865: Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination.
American Minute Politics of Race
***1866: The Republican Party passes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to protect the rights of newly freed slaves.
***December 6, 1865: Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified.
***1865: The KKK launches as the “Terrorist Arm” of the Democratic Party
***February 5, 1866: U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves.
***April 9, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law.
***April 19, 1866: Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery.
***May 10, 1866: U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no.
*** June 8, 1866: U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no.
***July 16, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights.
***July 28, 1866: Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen.
***July 30, 1866: Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150.
***January 8, 1867: Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.
***July 19, 1867: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans.
***March 30, 1868: Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men.”
***May 20, 1868: Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors.
***1868 (July 9): 14th Amendment passes and recognizes newly freed slaves as U.S. Citizens; Republican Party Support: 94% Democratic Party Support: 0%.
***September 3, 1868: 25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress.
***September 12, 1868: Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress.
***September 28, 1868: Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor.
***October 7, 1868: Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule.”
***October 22, 1868: While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan.
***November 3, 1868: Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation.
***December 10, 1869: Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office.
***December 10, 1869: Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office.
***December 10, 1869: Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office.
***February 3, 1870: The US House ratifies the 15th Amendment granting voting rights to all Americans regardless of race.
***February 25, 1870: Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first Black seated in the US Senate, becoming the First Black in Congress and the first Black Republican Senator.
***May 19, 1870: African American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies.
***May 31, 1870: President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights.
***June 22, 1870: Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South.
***September 6, 1870: Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell.
***December 12, 1870: Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey becomes the first Black duly elected by the people and the first Black in the US House of Representatives.
***In 1870 and 1871, along with Revels (R-Miss) and Rainey (R-SC), other Blacks were elected to Congress from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia – all Republicans.
***A Black Democrat Senator didn’t show up on Capitol Hill until 1993. The first Black Congressman was not elected until 1935.
***February 28, 1871: Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters.
***April 20, 1871: Republican Congress enacts the (anti) Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans.
***October 10, 1871: Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands.
***October 18, 1871: After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan.
***November 18, 1872: Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”
***January 17, 1874: Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government.
***September 14, 1874: Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed.
***1875 (March 1): The Civil Rights Act of 1875 passes. It is the First Anti-Discrimination Law in America.
***March 1, 1875: Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President US Grant Republican support: 92% Democrat support: 0%.
***January 10, 1878: U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919.
Women’s suffrage in the United States
***July 14, 1884: Republicans criticize Democratic Party’s nomination of racist U.S. Senator Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) for vice president; he had voted against the 13th Amendment banning slavery.
***June 7, 1892: In a FIRST for a major U.S. political party, two women – Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attend Republican National Convention in an official capacity, as alternate delegates.
February 8, 1894: Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover ***Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote.
***December 11, 1895: African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans.
***May 18, 1896: Republican Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting from Supreme Court’s notorious Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” decision, declares: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.”
***December 31, 1898: Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools.
***May 24, 1900: Republicans vote no in referendum for constitutional convention in Virginia, designed to create a new state constitution disenfranchising African-Americans.
***January 15, 1901: Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans.
https://clallamrepublicans.org/gop-history/
***October 16, 1901: President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country.
***May 29, 1902: Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%.
***February 12, 1909: On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP.
***1915: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson showcases the first movie ever shown in the White House – Birth of a Nation – The Ku Klux Klan Ep.
***August 1, 1916: Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, former New York Governor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, endorses women’s suffrage constitutional amendment; he would become Secretary of State and Chief Justice.
***May 21, 1919: Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no.
***April 18, 1920: Minnesota’s FIRST-in-the-nation anti-lynching law, promoted by African-American Republican Nellie Francis, signed by Republican Gov. Jacob Preus.
August 18, 1920: Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures.
***January 26, 1922: House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster *119 Members voted AGAINST the Bill. OF THE 199, 103 were members of the Democratic Party.
***June 2, 1924: Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans.
***December 8, 1924: Democratic presidential candidate John W Davis argues in favor of “separate but equal.”
***June 12, 1929: First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country.
**August 17, 1937: Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation
***June 24, 1940: Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it.
**October 20, 1942: 60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto, calling on southern Democrats to abolish their white primaries.
April 3, 1944: US Supreme Court strikes down Texas Democratic Party’s “whites only” primary election system.
***August 8, 1945: Republicans condemn Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that “the use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”
***February 18, 1946: Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools.
***July 11, 1952: Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity” of Democrats in racial matters.
***September 30, 1953: Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
***December 8, 1953: Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General J. Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education.
***May 17, 1954: Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA) and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of Supreme Court for school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education.
***November 25, 1955: Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel.
***March 12, 1956: Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation.
***June 5, 1956: Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law.
***October 19, 1956: On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”
***November 6, 1956: African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President.
***1957 (September 9): Republican President Dwight Eisenhower passes the First Civil Rights Law in 82 years…CRA 1957.
*The Democratic Party Filibuster the Bill
*Republican Party Support: 92% *Democratic Party Support: 54%
***September 24, 1957: Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools
***June 23, 1958: President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights
***February 4, 1959: President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many Democrats.
***May 6, 1960: President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
*The Democratic Party Filibuster the Bill
*Republican Party Support: 93% *Democratic Party Support: 68%
***July 27, 1960: At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in platform
***May 2, 1963: Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights.
***June 1, 1963: Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate University of Alabama.
***September 29, 1963: Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School.
Johnson had a long history of voting with the south against civil rights, and prior to 1957 he voted 100% with the South, including voting against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960.
After the Civil Rights Acts, the southern Dixiecrats who opposed civil rights, dissolved and most returned to the Democrat party, although if you listen to Democrat rhetoric you would think all Dixiecrats became Republicans. Some did, but most did not, and to name a few that did not: Richard Russel, Mendell Rivers, William Fulbright, Robert “KKK” Byrd, Fritz Hollings and Al Gore, Sr., the father of former VP Al Gore.
William Fulbright was the left of the Left, stauch apologist for Stalin, and mentor of the first Black president, Bill Clinton. Fulbright was a Dixiecrat and a life-long Democrat.
The following is a portion of commentary from Paul Weyrich at Newsmax in 2004:
Prior to 1936 those Blacks who could vote generally supported Republican Presidential candidates. The GOP was the party of Abraham Lincoln, after all. Even Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal failed to completely break the bond between Blacks and the GOP. Ike received strong support from Black voters in 1952 and 1956. Then came the 1960 election. John F. Kennedy, no strong civil rights crusader before and even during most of his presidency, did make a special and emotion appeal to the Black community by telephoning Coretta Scott King after her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King, had been jailed. It worked, helping him to carry a majority of black votes.
Senator John F. Kennedy had opportunities to vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, but instead voted to send it to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Instead, the vote happened and it passed with the help of Republicans, even if the bill was not all it could have been. After becoming president, JFK introduced NO new civil rights proposals.
***June 9, 1964: Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by Democrat Senator Strom Thurmond and U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who served in the U.S. Senate until his death in mid-2010.
***June 10, 1964: Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
***1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes due to Republican Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen’s perseverance. The Bill is Filibustered by the Democratic Party. Republican Party Support: 80% *Democratic Party Support: 63%
***1969-1964: President Nixon doubled aid to Black colleges, raised civil rights enforcement budget 800%, appointed more blacks to federal posts and high positions than any other President, including LBJ, instituted mandated quotas for Blacks in unions and Black scholars in Colleges and Universities, opened the Office of Minority Business Enterprise, raised purchases from Black businesses from $9 MILLION to $153 MILLION, increased small business loans to Black businesses 1000%, increased US deposits in minority-owned banks 4,000%, [refused aid to segregated schools] and raised the share of desegregated schools from 10% to 70%. Source: WND
***June 20, 1964: The Chicago Defender, renowned African-American newspaper, praises Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) for leading passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act
***March 7, 1965: Police under the command of Democrat Governor George Wallace attack African-Americans demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, AL
***March 21, 1965: Republican federal judge Frank Johnson authorizes Martin Luther King’s protest march from Selma to Montgomery, overruling Democrat Governor George Wallace
***August 4, 1965: Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose
***August 6, 1965: Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor
***July 8, 1970: In special message to Congress, President Richard Nixon calls for reversal of policy of forced termination of Native American rights and benefits
***September 17, 1971: Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he had defended Klansmen for racial murders.
***February 19, 1976: President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII
***September 15, 1981: President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs
***June 29, 1982: President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act
***August 10, 1988: President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR
***November 21, 1991: President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation
***August 20, 1996: Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America becomes law
***April 26, 1999: Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) awarding Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is transmitted to President.
***January 25, 2001: U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee declares school choice to be “Educational Emancipation”
***March 19, 2003: Republican U.S. Representatives of Hispanic and Portuguese descent form Congressional Hispanic Conference
***May 23, 2003: U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduces bill to establish National Museum of African American History and Culture
***February 26, 2004: Hispanic Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-TX) condemns racist comments by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL); she had called Asst. Secretary of State Roger Noriega and several Hispanic Congressmen “a bunch of white men…you all look alike to me.”
So now that you have read the actual historical record, The Manipulative Party of The K.K.K. And The TRUE History of The Republican’s Stance on Human Rights...
…Which party do you stand with??
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