The PROUD history of the Republican Party

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RCO64
September 06, 2007

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- February 8, 1894: Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress repealed the GOP's Enforcement Act, denying black voters federal protection.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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TluskiLetowski (2 days ago) Show Hide

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The Republicans abolished slavery.
The Democrats founded the KKK to oppress the abolitionist Republicans in 1868.
The Republicans passed the 14th and 15th amendments of the Constitution.
The Democrats passed Jim Crow laws.
Which party do you think is irrelevant?
The one with a legacy of murder and hate?
Or the one that wants to keep your pot illegal?
Hit alt+f4 and google some more Bush jokes, hypocrites.

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The Republican Party = Elephant Crap Bury it !!!

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The whole world outside America tells jokes these fat headed fat assed warmongering redneck backwards fucksticks.

They will never forgive this Republican party for forcing the idiot Bush upon the world.

You have made jokes of yourselves.

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GOP - GREAT OBSOLETE PITY

GOP GOAL: Lose another 58 Senate & House Seats over the next 3 elections...AGAIN! ~Scarah Failin

GOP followers can be seen wearing HUGE bandages on their chins these days due to ALL the excessive "Tea-Bagging" they've done lately. ~Man Coulter

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Isn't it GREAT that RepubliCONs are NOW irrelevant in Government?

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mavrek you racist much? I would hope everyone would be proud of ending slavery and civil rights for all.

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Republicans burned their own library and knowledge and understanding. I thought that they favored intellect the least, but actually they killed information and progress because of their own paranoia.

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republicans won't trick the working class again

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USA is a great country, but being ruined by leaders like Bush

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