HISTORICAL FACTS.

When you hear a Democrat or Progressives want to call Republicans

Racist. Remind them of this History lesson.

• The Republican Party was first organized in 1854, growing out of

a coalition of anti-slavery Whigs and Free Soil Democrats who
opposed Slavery.

• May 22, 1856: Two years after the

Grand Old party's birth, U.S. Senator
Charles Sumner (R., Mass.) rose to
decry pro-slavery Democrats.
Congressman Preston Brooks (D., S.C.)
responded by grabbing a stick and
beating Sumner unconscious in the
Senate chamber. Disabled, Sumner
could not resume his duties for three
years.

• 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." This is the ORIGINAL CIVIL RIGHTS ACT.
Section 1981 (the original Civil Rights Act of 1866) was the first
major anti-discrimination employment statute. This act prohibited
employment discrimination based on race and color. This Act has
been interpreted by the Supreme Court to protect all ethnic groups.

• July 30, 1866: New Orleans's Democratic government ordered

police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and
injuring 150. Unofficial counts have the number much higher. It
would become known as The New
Orleans Race Riot

• September 28, 1868: Democrats

in Opelousas, Louisiana killed nearly
300 blacks who tried to foil an
assault on a Republican newspaper
editor. It started when a white man
tried to register a black man to vote.
• October 7, 1868: Republicans criticized
Democrats' national slogan: "This is a white
man's country: Let white men rule."

• 1869-1870 The 15th Amendment to the

Constitution is ratified. It ensured the rights had
the right to vote. It would be circumvented by
KKK and Jim Crow Laws.
Not One Democrat in either the House or the Senate voted for the
bill.

• April 20, 1871: The GOP Congress adopted the Ku Klux Klan Act,
banning the pro-Democrat domestic
terrorist group. Republican President
Grant used this and the Force Act to bring
the KLAN to trial. To which the KLAN
responded to the Republican coming into
the south as Carpet Baggers and warned
them with signs depicting what would
happen to them if the interfered with the
Democratic Klan

• February 28, 1871: The GOP Congress passed the Enforcement Act,
giving black voters federal protection.

• October 18, 1871: GOP President Ulysses S. Grant dispatched

federal troops to quell Klan violence in South Carolina.

• September 14, 1874: Racist white

Democrats called the White League
stormed Louisiana's statehouse to oust
GOP Governor William Kellogg's racially
integrated administration; 27 are killed.
It would become known as a race riots
“Battle Of Liberty Place" GOP President
Ulysses S. Grant sent in troops and
restored Kellog’s administration three
days later.

• February 8, 1894: Democratic President

Grover Cleveland and a Democratic
Congress repealed the GOP's Enforcement
Act, denying black voters federal protection.
  February 18,
1915 President
Woodrow Wilson;
screened The Birth
of a Nation (the first
film, in fact, ever to
be screened in the
White House). The
film’s power and
message reportedly
overwhelmed
Wilson. The movie
makes the KKK Klansmen out to be
heroes. Wilson was quoted as saying
commented of the film that "it is like
writing history with lightning. And my
only regret is that it is all so terribly true". Wilson was also the
President that instituted the policy of Segregation in the Armed
Forces.

• 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.

• 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. Hugo Black ex Klansman
sat on the Supreme Court until
1971.

• May 17, 1954: As chief justice, former three-

term governor Earl Warren (R., Calif.) led the
U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation of
government schools via the landmark Brown v.
Board of Education decision. GOP President
Dwight Eisenhower's Justice Department
argued for Topeka, Kansas's black school
children. Democrat John W. Davis, who lost a
presidential bid to incumbent Republican Calvin
Coolidge in 1924, defended "separate but
equal" classrooms.
• 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.

• July 2, 1964: Democratic President Johnson signed the 1964 Civil

Rights Act after former Klansman
Robert Byrd's 14-hour filibuster and
the votes of 22 other Senate
Democrats (including Tennessee's Al
Gore, Sr.) failed to scuttle the
measure. The Democrats' Klan-
coddling today is embodied by KKK
alumnus Robert Byrd, West Virginia's
U.S. senator and, having served since
January 3, 1959, that body's dean.
Thirteen years earlier, Byrd wrote this
to the KKK's Imperial Wizard: "The
Klan is needed today as never before
and I am anxious to see its rebirth
here in West Virginia." Byrd led
Senate Democrats as late as December
1988. National Democrats never have
arranged a primary challenge against
or otherwise pressed this one-time
cross-burner to get lost. Remember who led the DEMOCRATIC
filibuster Against the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Robert C Byrd

• Contrast the KKKozy Democrats with the GOP. When former

Klansman David Duke ran for Louisiana governor in 1991 as a
Republican, national GOP officials scorned him. Local Republicans
endorsed incumbent Democrat Edwin Edwards, despite his ethical
baggage. As one Republican-created bumper sticker pleaded: "Vote
for the crook: It's important!"

• June 29, 1982: President Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year

extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

• Republican President George W Bush had more minorities in

position of power than any prior administration.

Now which party has the Racist History Again?