LOL, civil rights praise to the party of the KKK. I love how revisionist history makes the democrats look like Saints. Traditionally it was the republicans who promoted and fought for civil rights based on race and sex. Republican support equal rights, not special rights.
Lets see, the Republican party was created to defeat the promotion and expansion of slavery of the
Kansas-Nebraska Act..
1961 Abe Lincoln signed the
Emancipation Proclamation.
It was 1875 when two republicans got the
Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed only to get is declared unconstitutional by the efforts of Guess who. Although 90 years later it was the foundation for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who fought to push through the
Thirteenth Amendment,
Fourteenth Amendment and
Fifteenth Amendment -- thats right, the Republicans -- The Republicans also played a leading role the passing of the
Nineteenth Amendment
It was a conservative SCOTUS under Earl Warren that gave us
Brown v. Board of Education (Ol Earl wrote my father a letter to help him get into Bezerkly)
lololol @ your own picture of fearmongering Democrats protesting SCOTUS during Brown vs BoE.
It was under Ike that the republicans proposed the
Civil Rights Act of 1957. CRA-1957 was originally stronger than the CRA-1964, the democrats were pissed. Strom, a democrat at the time, pulled a filibuster and it was fought by people like John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson. LBJ and the dems sent it back to committee where the act was hacked up and watered down by an
anti-civil rights white supremest democrat led committee.
Jim Crow laws lolololol , which party was consistent in creating and supporting these laws.... that's right, the democrats at every level. Funny you believe the evil ones became Republicans; Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms switched. The racist ones became dixiecrats: Richard Russell, Mendell Rivers, Clinton's mentor William Fulbright, Robert KKK Byrd, Fritz Hollings and Al Gore Sr. remained Democrats.
John F Kennedy, the last honorable democrat president would today be conservative. JFK fought the CRA-1957 and consistently stood in the way of civil rights until after he became POTUS. Once he was in office he did the right thing and became a president who listen to the will of the people in the face of his party. JFK embraced what became CRA-1964 even though it wasn't as strong as the CRA-1954 which he didn't support.
In today's measure of Democrats, when they begin to talk of civil rights one thing becomes clear.
