Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition

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

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

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

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 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 staggering 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.

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. 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

Do our "Teachers" teach this ?

wheel,

ha,

whel,

The flavors of the two major parties have swirled and reversed so many times that it really is quite impossible to make any sense of party history.

Today's Republicans have their racism and their homosexuality way back in the closet. 'Cept for the guy that keeps widening his stance while on the ****.

wheel,

ABC News was racist a couple of times. They were saying how readng levels of whites is above that of blacks and hispanics.

How would they even know unless of course they see color?

Racism!

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.

Tonight's History lesson...

wheel,

1st of all; racism is not a political platform... it is a core value.

2nd of all; Republicans may have a history of backing civil rights legislation.......but this had a lot to do with the agricultural concerns of the mostly democratic southern USA (although the forerunners of the abolition movement were ultra-liberal quakers).

But for the most part it just doesn't make sense to apply a racist filter to either party.

wheel,

Most Americans think the Dems are the warriors for the oppressed.

It's just not the case..

wheel,

You examples of "racism" end almost fifty years ago.

So let's say you're right about those despicable democrats of the 1960s........all that means is that democrats WERE racist.

(and of course all of the republican white people in the 1960s just LOVED black people).

I stay away from political threads, and consider myself a middle of the road Republican,

BUT come on... the parties for all intensive purposes reversed constituencies over the last 40 or so years, the south was solid DEMOCRAT, now SOLID Republican....

(Not saying the southerners were in any way racist... but......)

Bad logic, like saying the Germans still want to exterminate the Jews... Can't hold the GRANDCHILDREN responsible for the wrongs of the grandparents!!

You really can't believe what your posting? right?

This is a post Reconstruction American HISTORY class.

wheel,

These are historical facts...

wheel,

**** flip flops all the time...that's life ... My dad and his parents were all southern democrats if they were still alive they probably be republicans and would have thought that Obama should have respected his station in life and spent his life helping his own kind.

He'll that's just the way a lot of people thought back in the day...I think those are the good old days that Glenn Beck refers to....