The PROUD history of the Republican Party

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- February 8, 1894: Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress repealed the GOP's Enforcement Act, denying black voters federal protection.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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[Biafrans7]

Republican party of today had become the democrats of yesterday. Nothing connects Abraham Lincoln with these bloody racists of today's republican party. Lincoln was not a conservative. You will never be able to survive the lie that if Lincoln were alive today, he would have been a republican,

[Tyco200]

@Mikuruification Simplify this, little piggy (I dare you to reply.)

Democrat = Greedy, worthless pig on welfare, taxing the typical middle class guy of his little wealth for his own sexist, pig like, pornographic views of worthlessness.

Republican = Pretty dumb, but the typical American citizen.

Moderate = The Greatest Clinton era man around.

[cowgoesmoo2]

DON'T FORGET AT ONE POINT THE REPUBLICANS TURNED INTO DEMOCRATS, THAT WAS CLOSE TO WHEN THE KKK WAS COMPOSED OF DEMOCRATS...

THAT'S SOME PROUD MOTHERFUCKING HISTORY THERE.

[easmachine]

@batstooge2 Then why is Newt Gingrich accusing poor blacks of laziness? Why does rick Santorum complain that Black people are "given"son much? Why did Bachmann sign a pledge that said blacks were better off during slavery? I'm not even touching Rick Niggerhead Perry. What Republican Party were you yalking about, because the one I see race baits all the time?

[MrJero85]

And now they hate gays...so much for equality

[JerryWE]

@AyaxTelemonio Get your facts correct. Thomas Jefferson was a Democratic Republican. The Republican party didn't exist until 5 years after he died. So he was not the FIRST REPUBLICAN.  Democratic Republican party was neither Republican or Democrat .

[s13iLLuminati]

@Biafrans7 You're pretty ignorant if you believe that. You know, instead of me trying to convince you of where you're wrong, do this: Look up the published text of the first Republican party platform of 1856. Read it, then tell me where today's republican party differs from it ideologically. Then ask yourself, if such a platform was needed at the time, what kind of injustices were being perpetrated by the democrats of that day and more importantly why. Enjoy life inside your bubble, ignoramus.

[angels77100]

@thisguyagain1000 I hope God can forgive you for your mentality which is criminal. If I had my way, everyone of you Liberal sons of bitches would be locked up.

[thisguyagain1000]

@angels77100 you're an idiot, plain and simple, uneducated and far from holy. God spares the children, not the ignorant. Good luck to you. PS even republicans, when their heads hit their pillows, know their full of shit, individually they know it. Palin knows she's an idiot and is likely more suprised than us that she got as far as she did, every freaking candidate. The Obama administration mistakes? By your math, you're guilty tomorrow for what I steal today?

[TheVeryBiggestAl]

As a GOP Socialist, I support the GOP. I am very rich and the GOP works 24/7 for me and my rich friends. How wonderful. Let's smack down the working class and the middle class and let's keep most Americans from the right to vote. Let's practice GOP Socialism 24/7.