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In outright defiance of Republican-led fed gvmt, southern DEMOCRATS formed orgs (ie KKK) that violently intimidated BLACKS & REPUBLICANS who tried to win political power..responsible for 1000s of deaths & helped to weaken power of BLACKS & REPUBLICANS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-kkk/
[2008] DNC website section labeled "Party History" is scrubbed clean of the not-so-little dirty secret that fueled Democrats' political successes for over a century & a half & made life a hell on earth for black Americans #somethingsneverchange #WakeUp https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121856786326834083
Did you know the Democratic Party defended slavery, started Civil War, founded KKK, & fought against every major civil rights act in US history? The inconvenient history of the Democratic Party...
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History of the Democrats and their founding of the KKK, Ku Klux Klan. Because blacks had founded the Republican Party and were taking control of Congress at the Federal and State level.
Thus began a decades-long tradition of black Republicanism in TX. Despite widespread violence & intimidation by Ku Klux Klan & Democrats, many black men registered for 1868 referendum on whether to hold another constitutional convention & elect delegates https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/wmafr
[2015] Is the Democratic Party Abandoning Jefferson and Jackson?
Connecticut, Missouri, & Georgia have dropped the slave-owning presidents from their annual fund-raising dinners, & many more states could follow suit. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/will-the-democratic-party-abandon-thomas-jefferson-andrew-jackson/399722/
Connecticut, Missouri, & Georgia have dropped the slave-owning presidents from their annual fund-raising dinners, & many more states could follow suit. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/will-the-democratic-party-abandon-thomas-jefferson-andrew-jackson/399722/
Just a reminder that the K_K was created by the DEMOCRATS!
A Klu Klux Klan (KKK) rally held in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday drew only nine members to the event and hundreds of counterprotesters. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/445560-kkk-group-heavily-outnumbered-by-counter-protesters-at-their
A Klu Klux Klan (KKK) rally held in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday drew only nine members to the event and hundreds of counterprotesters. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/445560-kkk-group-heavily-outnumbered-by-counter-protesters-at-their
Many whites were lynched for fighting racism https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2017/09/25/many-whites-were-lynched-fighting-racism-opinion/700690001/
a greater percentage of Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Throughout the 1950s & ’60s, Reps were generally more unified than Dems in support of civil rights legislation, as many Southern Dems voted in opposition. https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/17/fact-check-more-republicans-voted-for-the-civil-rights-act-as-a-percentage-than-democrats-did/
The Ku Klux Klan functioned as the paramilitary wing of the Democratic party, and it was used to drive Republicans out of the South after the Civil War. B https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/setting-record-straight-jim-crow-john-fund/
H.R. 7152. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964. ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION (H. RES. 789) PROVIDING FOR HOUSE APPROVAL OF THE BILL AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182
Since its founding in late 1820s, Democratic Party has defended slavery, started Civil War, & opposed Reconstruction. The Democratic Party imposed segregation. Its members engaged in the lynchings of blacks & opposed the civil rights acts of the 50s & 60s. https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/06/07/democrats-duped-african-americans/
Whitewashing the Democratic Party’s History.
The less racist the South gets, the more Republican it becomes. https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/
The less racist the South gets, the more Republican it becomes. https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/
The irony of this nasty charge being slung by a Democrat is that until very recently the grand old man of the Democratic Party, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving Senate member ever, was widely known for his ties to the KKK. https://spectator.org/grand-wizards-of-the-democratic-party/
Remind me, again, who was behind all the “violent bigotry” of the Civil War? Oh, yeah, it was Democrats. And who was behind all the vestiges of it over the last century? Democrats. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/20/democrats-decry-the-kkk-while-forgetting-legacy-of/
some liberals are using the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act to bash Republicans as inheriting the legacy of Jim Crow — ignoring the fact that a higher percentage of Republicans in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act than did Democrats. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/setting-record-straight-jim-crow-john-fund/
The Whigs would, of course, evolve into the explicitly anti-slavery Republican party, while the Democrats would continue to be the party of white supremacists well into the 20th century. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/12/01/is-the-gop-the-party-of-andrew-jackson/#4981bb2f6aba
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party, established to stop the spread of slavery into the new Western territories and ultimately abolish it altogether. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/republican-party-founded
Most people don't realize that today at all -- in proportional terms, a far higher percentage of Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act bill than did Democrats https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/politics/civil-rights-act-interesting-facts/
Since southern Democrats opposed the legislation (Civil Rights Act of 1964), votes from a substantial number of senators in the Republican minority would be needed to end the filibuster. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilRightsAct1964.htm
The solution for the seven Democrats on the Supreme Court (the two Republicans dissented) was that blacks could not be citizens anywhere, North or South, so they had no standing to sue in court for anything. https://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2007/03/the_republican_.html
The Klan's goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65) https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-reconstruction-era
Black conservative Justice Clarence Thomas compares 'modern liberals' to Klansmen as he claims they have been a bigger obstacle to his career than the KKK https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7739755/Black-conservative-Justice-Clarence-Thomas-compares-modern-liberals-KLANSMEN-new-documentary.html
