Mr Neutron
Well-Known Member
FRANCES RICE, Liberty Ink Journal
Using inflammatory rhetoric designed to silence critics of the socialist agenda of the Obama administration, Democratic Party leaders and media surrogates are falsely linking activists in the Tea Party movement to the Ku Klux Klan.
A prime example is Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) who, while speaking at the NAACP convention, said, All those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them off to wear Tea Party clothing.
In reality, it was Democrats who started the Ku Klux Klan which became the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party. In his book, A Short History of Reconstruction, History professor Eric Foner wrote:
Founded in 1866 as a Tennessee social club, the Ku Klux Klan spread into nearly every Southern state, launching a reign of terror against Republican Party leaders, black and white. In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. Jack Dupree, a victim of a particularly brutal murder in Monroe County, Mississippiassailants cut his throat and disemboweled him, all within sight of his wife, who had just given birth to twinswas president of a republican club and known as a man who would speak his mind
Documents in the Georgia archives include the words of Georgia-born Democrat and Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, written in the September 1928 edition of the Klans Kourier Magazine. Forrest wrote,
I have never voted for any man who was not a regular Democrat. My father never voted for any man who was not a Democrat. My grandfather was the head of the Ku Klux Klan in reconstruction days My great-grandfather was a life-long Democrat My great-great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Democratic Party.
After the Civil War, over three thousand Republicansblack and whitewere lynched by the Ku Klux Klan. Republicans, led by President Ulysses Grant, took action and destroyed the Klan with the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Undaunted, Democrats in the 20th century helped the Klan to re-emerge when racist Democrat President Woodrow Wilson premiered the racist movie Birth of a Nation in the White House in 1915.
Inspired by the movie, some Georgia Democrats revived the Klan, which once again became a powerful force within the Democratic Party and so dominated the 1924 Democratic Convention that Republicans called it the Klanbake. In the 1930s, Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a Klansman, Senator Hugo Black (D-Ala.), to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Klansmen against whom the civil rights movement activists struggled in the 1950s were all Democrats. The notorious Alabama police commissioner Eugene Bull Connor, who attacked black civil rights demonstrators with dogs, clubs and fire hoses, was both a Klansman and the Democratic Partys National Committeeman for Alabama. Starting in the 1980s, the Democratic Party elevated a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), to third-in-line for the presidency, and he remained a Democrat until he died in 2010.
All of this history shows that the Republican Party has always been the party of the four Fs: family, faith, freedom and fairness. As author Michael Scheuer wrote, the Democratic Party is the party of the four Ss: slavery, secession, segregation and socialism. Democrats have been running black communities for the past fourty to fifty years, and their socialist policies have turned those communities into
economic and social wastelands.
A reflection of the racist attitude of the liberals/progressives in the Democratic Party can be found in the words of liberal icon Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. She wrote, We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We dont want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.
Frances Rice, a lawyer and retired Army lieutenant colonel, is the chairman of the National Black Republican Association. She may be contacted at www.NBRA.info
October 13, 1858
During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-Ill.) 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 becomes Democratic Partys 1860 presidential nominee.
April 16, 1862
President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia. In Congress, 99 percent of Republicans vote yes and 83 percent of Democrats vote no.
July 17, 1862
Over unanimous Democratic opposition, the Republican-controlled Congress passes the Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy shall be forever free.
January 31, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House of Representatives with unanimous Republican support and intense Democratic opposition.
April 8, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100 percent Republican support and 63 percent Democratic opposition.
November 22, 1865
Republicans denounce Democratic legislature of Mississippi for enacting Black Codes, which institutionalized racial discrimination.
February 5, 1866
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-Penn.) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democratic President Andrew Johnson, to implement 40 acres and a mule relief by distributing land to former slaves.
April 9, 1866
Republican Congress overrides Democratic President Andrew Johnsons veto, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law.
May 10, 1866
U.S. House passes the Republicans 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens, with 100 percent of Democrats voting no.
June 8, 1866
U.S. Senate passes the Republicans 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens, where 94 percent of Republicans vote yes and 100 percent of Democrats vote no.
January 8, 1867
Republicans override Democratic President Andrew Johnsons veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.
July 19, 1867
Republican Congress overrides Democratic President Andrew Johnsons veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans.
March 30, 1868
Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democratic 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.
September 3, 1868
Twenty-five African-Americans in the Georgia legislature, all Republicans, were expelled by the Democratic majority. They were later reinstated by a Republican-controlled Congress.
September 12, 1868
Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in the Georgia Senateall Republicanswere expelled by the Democratic majority. They were later reinstated by a Republican-controlled Congress.
October 7, 1868
Republicans denounce the Democratic Partys national campaign theme: This is a white mans country: Let white men rule.
October 22, 1868
While campaigning for re-election, U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-Ark.) is assassinated by Democratic terrorists who were organized as the Ku Klux Klan.
December 10, 1869
Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs the first law in the nation to grant women the right to vote and to hold public office.
February 3, 1870
After passing the U.S. House of Representatives with 98 percent Republican support and 97 percent Democratic opposition, the Republicans 15th Amendment is ratified, granting the right to vote to all Americans regardless of race.
May 31, 1870
President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Republicans Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving civil rights to any Americans.
June 22, 1870
The Republican-controlled Congress creates the 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 during the first election after womens suffrage legislation was signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell.
February 28, 1871
Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters.
April 20, 1871
The Republican-controlled Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans.
October 10, 1871
Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against blacks voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto was murdered by a Democratic Party operative. His military funeral was attended by thousands.
October 18, 1871
After violence was committed against Republicans in South Carolina, Republican President Ulysses S. Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democratic 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
Armed Democrats seize the Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate the Texas government.
September 14, 1874
Democratic white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow the racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg. Twenty-seven people were killed.
January 10, 1878
U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-Cali.) introduces the Susan B. Anthony amendment for womens suffrage. The Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it four times before the election of the Republican-controlled House and Senate, which guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans foil Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where Democrats believed they belonged.
February 8, 1894
The Democrat-controlled Congress and Democratic President Grover Cleveland join to repeal the Republicans Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to exercise their right to vote guaranteed by the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
February 12, 1909
On the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincolns birth, African-American Republicans and womens suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-founded the NAACP. Black Republican James Weldon Johnson later became the first black head of the NAACP in 1920.
May 29, 1902
Virginia Democrats implement a new state constitutioncondemned by Republicans as illegalthat reduced African-American voter registration by 86 percent.
May 21, 1919
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passes a constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85 percent of Republicans in favor, but only 54 percent of Democrats. In the Senate, 80 percent of Republicans voted yes, but almost half of Democrats voted no.
August 18, 1920
The Republican-authored 19th Amendment, affirming the right to vote for women, becomes part of Constitution. Twenty-six of the 36 states that ratified the amendment had Republican-controlled legislatures.
January 26, 1922
The U.S. House of Representative passes the bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-Mo.) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with a filibuster.
June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs the bill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans.
October 3, 1924
Republicans denounce three-time Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at the 1924 Democratic National Convention.
June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invites the wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-Ill.), 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 Democratic U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hugo Blacks Klan background was hidden until after his confirmation.
June 24, 1940
The Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces. For the balance of his terms in office, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt refuses to order integration of the military.
August 8, 1945
Republicans condemn Democratic President Harry Trumans surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. Two days after the Hiroshima bombing, former Republican President Herbert Hoover wrote to a friend, The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
September 30, 1953
Earl Warren, Californias three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, was nominated to be Chief Justice by Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Justice Warren wrote the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
November 25, 1955
The Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel.
March 12, 1956
Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn the U.S Supreme Courts decision in Brown v. Board of Education and pledge to continue segregation of the races.
June 5, 1956
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in a decision striking down blacks in the back of the bus laws in the Democrat-controlled South.
November 6, 1956
African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President.
September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, who both voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, Ark., to force Democratic Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools.
September 9, 1957
Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Republican Partys 1957 Civil Rights Act.
May 6, 1960
Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Republicans Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming a 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
May 2, 1963
Republicans condemn the Democratic sheriff of Birmingham, Ala., for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights.
September 29, 1963
Democratic Gov. George Wallace of Alabama defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School.
June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn the fourteen-hour filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), who served in the Senate until his death in 2010.
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) criticizes the Democratic filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 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 Democratic senators, several of whom were proud segregationistsone of them being Democratic Senator Al Gore, Sr. Democrat President Lyndon Johnson relied on Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen overcomes the Democrat attempts to block the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Ninty-four percent of Senate Republicans voted for that landmark civil rights legislation, while 27 percent of Democrats opposed it. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting.
February 19, 1976
Republican President Gerald Ford formally rescinds Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelts notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII.
September 15, 1981
Republican 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
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs a twenty-five-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act.
August 10, 1988
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
November 21, 1991
Republican President George H. W. Bush signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation.
August 20, 1996
Legislation authored by Rep. Susan Molinari (R-N.Y.) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of the Republicans Contract With America, becomes law.
Using inflammatory rhetoric designed to silence critics of the socialist agenda of the Obama administration, Democratic Party leaders and media surrogates are falsely linking activists in the Tea Party movement to the Ku Klux Klan.
A prime example is Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) who, while speaking at the NAACP convention, said, All those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them off to wear Tea Party clothing.
In reality, it was Democrats who started the Ku Klux Klan which became the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party. In his book, A Short History of Reconstruction, History professor Eric Foner wrote:
Founded in 1866 as a Tennessee social club, the Ku Klux Klan spread into nearly every Southern state, launching a reign of terror against Republican Party leaders, black and white. In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. Jack Dupree, a victim of a particularly brutal murder in Monroe County, Mississippiassailants cut his throat and disemboweled him, all within sight of his wife, who had just given birth to twinswas president of a republican club and known as a man who would speak his mind
Documents in the Georgia archives include the words of Georgia-born Democrat and Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, written in the September 1928 edition of the Klans Kourier Magazine. Forrest wrote,
I have never voted for any man who was not a regular Democrat. My father never voted for any man who was not a Democrat. My grandfather was the head of the Ku Klux Klan in reconstruction days My great-grandfather was a life-long Democrat My great-great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Democratic Party.
After the Civil War, over three thousand Republicansblack and whitewere lynched by the Ku Klux Klan. Republicans, led by President Ulysses Grant, took action and destroyed the Klan with the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Undaunted, Democrats in the 20th century helped the Klan to re-emerge when racist Democrat President Woodrow Wilson premiered the racist movie Birth of a Nation in the White House in 1915.
Inspired by the movie, some Georgia Democrats revived the Klan, which once again became a powerful force within the Democratic Party and so dominated the 1924 Democratic Convention that Republicans called it the Klanbake. In the 1930s, Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a Klansman, Senator Hugo Black (D-Ala.), to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Klansmen against whom the civil rights movement activists struggled in the 1950s were all Democrats. The notorious Alabama police commissioner Eugene Bull Connor, who attacked black civil rights demonstrators with dogs, clubs and fire hoses, was both a Klansman and the Democratic Partys National Committeeman for Alabama. Starting in the 1980s, the Democratic Party elevated a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), to third-in-line for the presidency, and he remained a Democrat until he died in 2010.
All of this history shows that the Republican Party has always been the party of the four Fs: family, faith, freedom and fairness. As author Michael Scheuer wrote, the Democratic Party is the party of the four Ss: slavery, secession, segregation and socialism. Democrats have been running black communities for the past fourty to fifty years, and their socialist policies have turned those communities into
economic and social wastelands.
A reflection of the racist attitude of the liberals/progressives in the Democratic Party can be found in the words of liberal icon Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. She wrote, We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We dont want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.
Frances Rice, a lawyer and retired Army lieutenant colonel, is the chairman of the National Black Republican Association. She may be contacted at www.NBRA.info
October 13, 1858
During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-Ill.) 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 becomes Democratic Partys 1860 presidential nominee.
April 16, 1862
President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia. In Congress, 99 percent of Republicans vote yes and 83 percent of Democrats vote no.
July 17, 1862
Over unanimous Democratic opposition, the Republican-controlled Congress passes the Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy shall be forever free.
January 31, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House of Representatives with unanimous Republican support and intense Democratic opposition.
April 8, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100 percent Republican support and 63 percent Democratic opposition.
November 22, 1865
Republicans denounce Democratic legislature of Mississippi for enacting Black Codes, which institutionalized racial discrimination.
February 5, 1866
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-Penn.) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democratic President Andrew Johnson, to implement 40 acres and a mule relief by distributing land to former slaves.
April 9, 1866
Republican Congress overrides Democratic President Andrew Johnsons veto, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law.
May 10, 1866
U.S. House passes the Republicans 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens, with 100 percent of Democrats voting no.
June 8, 1866
U.S. Senate passes the Republicans 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens, where 94 percent of Republicans vote yes and 100 percent of Democrats vote no.
January 8, 1867
Republicans override Democratic President Andrew Johnsons veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.
July 19, 1867
Republican Congress overrides Democratic President Andrew Johnsons veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans.
March 30, 1868
Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democratic 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.
September 3, 1868
Twenty-five African-Americans in the Georgia legislature, all Republicans, were expelled by the Democratic majority. They were later reinstated by a Republican-controlled Congress.
September 12, 1868
Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in the Georgia Senateall Republicanswere expelled by the Democratic majority. They were later reinstated by a Republican-controlled Congress.
October 7, 1868
Republicans denounce the Democratic Partys national campaign theme: This is a white mans country: Let white men rule.
October 22, 1868
While campaigning for re-election, U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-Ark.) is assassinated by Democratic terrorists who were organized as the Ku Klux Klan.
December 10, 1869
Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs the first law in the nation to grant women the right to vote and to hold public office.
February 3, 1870
After passing the U.S. House of Representatives with 98 percent Republican support and 97 percent Democratic opposition, the Republicans 15th Amendment is ratified, granting the right to vote to all Americans regardless of race.
May 31, 1870
President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Republicans Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving civil rights to any Americans.
June 22, 1870
The Republican-controlled Congress creates the 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 during the first election after womens suffrage legislation was signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell.
February 28, 1871
Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters.
April 20, 1871
The Republican-controlled Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans.
October 10, 1871
Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against blacks voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto was murdered by a Democratic Party operative. His military funeral was attended by thousands.
October 18, 1871
After violence was committed against Republicans in South Carolina, Republican President Ulysses S. Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democratic 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
Armed Democrats seize the Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate the Texas government.
September 14, 1874
Democratic white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow the racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg. Twenty-seven people were killed.
January 10, 1878
U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-Cali.) introduces the Susan B. Anthony amendment for womens suffrage. The Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it four times before the election of the Republican-controlled House and Senate, which guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans foil Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where Democrats believed they belonged.
February 8, 1894
The Democrat-controlled Congress and Democratic President Grover Cleveland join to repeal the Republicans Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to exercise their right to vote guaranteed by the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
February 12, 1909
On the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincolns birth, African-American Republicans and womens suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-founded the NAACP. Black Republican James Weldon Johnson later became the first black head of the NAACP in 1920.
May 29, 1902
Virginia Democrats implement a new state constitutioncondemned by Republicans as illegalthat reduced African-American voter registration by 86 percent.
May 21, 1919
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passes a constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85 percent of Republicans in favor, but only 54 percent of Democrats. In the Senate, 80 percent of Republicans voted yes, but almost half of Democrats voted no.
August 18, 1920
The Republican-authored 19th Amendment, affirming the right to vote for women, becomes part of Constitution. Twenty-six of the 36 states that ratified the amendment had Republican-controlled legislatures.
January 26, 1922
The U.S. House of Representative passes the bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-Mo.) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with a filibuster.
June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs the bill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans.
October 3, 1924
Republicans denounce three-time Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at the 1924 Democratic National Convention.
June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invites the wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-Ill.), 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 Democratic U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hugo Blacks Klan background was hidden until after his confirmation.
June 24, 1940
The Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces. For the balance of his terms in office, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt refuses to order integration of the military.
August 8, 1945
Republicans condemn Democratic President Harry Trumans surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. Two days after the Hiroshima bombing, former Republican President Herbert Hoover wrote to a friend, The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
September 30, 1953
Earl Warren, Californias three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, was nominated to be Chief Justice by Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Justice Warren wrote the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
November 25, 1955
The Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel.
March 12, 1956
Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn the U.S Supreme Courts decision in Brown v. Board of Education and pledge to continue segregation of the races.
June 5, 1956
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in a decision striking down blacks in the back of the bus laws in the Democrat-controlled South.
November 6, 1956
African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President.
September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, who both voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, Ark., to force Democratic Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools.
September 9, 1957
Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Republican Partys 1957 Civil Rights Act.
May 6, 1960
Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Republicans Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming a 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
May 2, 1963
Republicans condemn the Democratic sheriff of Birmingham, Ala., for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights.
September 29, 1963
Democratic Gov. George Wallace of Alabama defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School.
June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn the fourteen-hour filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), who served in the Senate until his death in 2010.
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) criticizes the Democratic filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 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 Democratic senators, several of whom were proud segregationistsone of them being Democratic Senator Al Gore, Sr. Democrat President Lyndon Johnson relied on Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen overcomes the Democrat attempts to block the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Ninty-four percent of Senate Republicans voted for that landmark civil rights legislation, while 27 percent of Democrats opposed it. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting.
February 19, 1976
Republican President Gerald Ford formally rescinds Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelts notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII.
September 15, 1981
Republican 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
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs a twenty-five-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act.
August 10, 1988
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
November 21, 1991
Republican President George H. W. Bush signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation.
August 20, 1996
Legislation authored by Rep. Susan Molinari (R-N.Y.) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of the Republicans Contract With America, becomes law.
