The PROUD history of the Republican Party
October 22nd, 2009
The Republican Party formed by abolitionists in 1854 take bold steps in securing freedoms for former slaves until the Democrats regain control of Congress. Once in control of Congress and many of the southern state governments the Democrats once again stripped away the rights African Americans wouldn’t again fully achieve until the civil rights movement of the 1960’s.
- In 1865, Congressional Republicans unanimously backed the 13th Amendment, which made slavery unconstitutional. Among Democrats, 63 percent of senators and 78 percent of House members voted: “No.”
- In 1866, 94 percent of GOP senators and 96 percent of GOP House members approved the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing all Americans equal protection of the law. Every congressional Democrat voted: “No.”
- February 28, 1871: The GOP Congress passed the Enforcement Act, giving black voters federal protection.
- February 8, 1894: Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress repealed the GOP’s Enforcement Act, denying black voters federal protection.
- October 16, 1901: GOP President Theodore Roosevelt invited to the White House as its first black dinner guest Republican educator Booker T. Washington.
- January 26, 1922: The U.S. House adopted Rep. Leonidas Dyer’s (R., Mo.) bill making lynching a federal crime. Filibustering Senate Democrats killed the measure.
- Until 1935, every black federal legislator was Republican. America’s first black U.S. Representative, South Carolina’s Joseph Rainey, and our first black senator, Mississippi’s Hiram Revels, both reached Capitol Hill in 1870. On December 9, 1872, Louisiana Republican Pinckney Benton Stewart “P.B.S.” Pinchback became America’s first black governor.
- August 17, 1937: Republicans opposed Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Supreme Court nominee, U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D., Al.), a former Klansman who defended Klansmen against race-murder charges.
- September 24, 1957: Eisenhower deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate Little Rock’s government schools over the strenuous resistance of Governor Orval Faubus (D., Ark.).
- May 6, 1960: Eisenhower signs the GOP’s 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats.
- November 2, 1983: President Reagan established Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday, the first such honor for a black American.
- President Reagan named Colin Powell America’s first black national-security adviser while GOP President George W. Bush appointed him our first black secretary of state.
Facts are from Deroy Murdock who is an advisory board member of Project 21, a Washington-based network of black free-market advocates.
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Tags: Abolitionists, Abraham, African, American, Americans, Civil, Democrats, Lincoln, Orbin, Racism, Republicans, Slavery, War
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
I highly doubt this …
I highly doubt this could happen today. Too many pundits and ditto-heads that would call out “Socialism!” or “Racism” or some other rhetoric coming from both the left AND right. I mean, just look at the Health Care Bill! The Left is too chicken to do anything, and the Right keeps the Left in check in that way.
There is no one with BALLS anymore.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
wikipedia . org/ …
wikipedia . org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Uh… yeah sorry …
Uh… yeah sorry it’s still a developed country.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
The Ameicans have …
The Ameicans have been betrayed by the choices of its people and by there leaders.
It is now considered a third world nation.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
why do so many …
why do so many white nationalists from today’s time, like the human trash that can be found at sites like Stormfront, not the KKK from 100 years ago, support anything that’s right wing?
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
why do so many …
why do so many white nationalists from today’s time, like the human trash that can be found at sites like Stormfront, not the KKK from 100 years ago, support anything that’s right wing?
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
why do so many …
why do so many white nationalists from today’s time, like the human trash that can be found at sites like Stormfront, not the KKK from 100 years ago, support anything that’s right wing?
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Spoken like a true …
Spoken like a true dittohead. Why do you Republicans always blame minorities? You GOPers controlled the government for most of the last 30 years. You drained the Treasury to pay for tax cuts for big oil companies & trust fund babies. You were asleep at the switch in 9-11 & again after Hurricane Katrina. You were asleep at the switch while your Wall Street cronies raped the S&Ls in the 1980s under corrupt Hollywood airhead Ronald Reagan & again when the banksters looted the banks under Bush.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
well atleast rush …
well atleast rush speaks the truth!!!! look what happened to this country>??? we allowed to many monorities get power now they want to change our country into a communists and spend spend spend!!!! were broke cause of them!!!
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
we need to get good …
we need to get good people to represent the republican party again. real consrvatism. small govt. i wanted Ron Paul. the dems or left now have special interst runnning amok. and spanish caucus crying out racial profilling when they do not get their ways. we need to enforce our laws such as immigration and the with what they think!!!
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Sorta. But who are …
Sorta. But who are the moderate Republicans? I don’t think there are any left. The one’s that are left are all terrified of Rush Limbaugh.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Easy, they swapped, …
Easy, they swapped, it was originally Liberal and Moderate Republican, and Conservative Democrats. Then they shifted somehow, and now it’s Moderate/Conservative Republicans and Liberal/Moderate Democrats.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Sorry, I meant …
Sorry, I meant today’s GOP. It’s really weird why they are so negative TODAY. That’s what I was talking about.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Good question.
The …
Good question.
The Republican Party elected the first African-American to congress in 1870 (Hiram Rhodes Revels–look it up).
The Democratic Party donned the white sheets and passed Jim Crow laws to keep blacks from voting.
From FDR on, the democrats were able to keep poor Americans convinced that they had someone looking out for them.
Too bad the policies of that party hurt the poor and disadvantaged the most. Wrong? Okay, let’s tour the ghettos in LA together, without a police escort.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
What is the name of …
What is the name of this Documentry?
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
What happened?
The …
What happened?
The entire Republican Party has decided that it is in favor of absolutely nothing.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
How sad that the …
How sad that the party of Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt has degenerated into the party of Dick Cheney and Limpdick Limbaugh.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Back then, when …
Back then, when Lincoln was Prez, the Democrats DID believe in and supported slavery. From the end of the Civil War to the 1960s, they believed in and supported racism and hatred. Only a handful of Democrats like the Kennedy family, who signed the Civil Rights Act, didn’t believe in racism, so that’s good. Republicans on the other hand also DIDN’T support slavery or racism and still don’t to this day. They don’t have a history of racism, the Democrats do, (except for conservative Democrats).
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
The republican …
The republican party uses lies, deception and bullshit spreaders like Rush Limbaugh and faux news (a.k.a. fox news) in attemptes to keep Obama from fixing the Bush Economy or fixing our up healthcare system!
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
OMG. Another retard …
OMG. Another retard comparing Obama to Hitler? And why ask 60 democrates? Republicans voted for it too. In fact, the first unaccounted stimulus bill was done by the Bush administration.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
true only in part, …
true only in part, Lincoln wasn’t completely pro-abololitionist until later in the war years. But history can only speculate as to what the post-war South (CSA) would have looked like under Abe’s tutelage. The 16th President’s loss is the biggest this country has ever felt.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Well said. They …
Well said. They call it national realignment. It would appear that the modern Republican’s prefer too keep the working poor, poor.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Lincoln was a …
Lincoln was a former Whig Party member and the majority of party converts were in fact disgruntled democratic party members. But again, the more important point is that the political zeitgeist has changed drastically over the years and the original parties are in fact, not the same as the modern parties.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Actually, the …
Actually, the republican party was established by Abraham Lincoln with his assisted democratic cabinet members who weren’t all anti-slavery.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
FYI, the Republican …
FYI, the Republican party was formed in the 1850s by anti-slavery DEMOCRATES.
And the politics of each party has changed significantly since their origins.