I ran across this site and this article and wanted to share it.
Posted on 08/30/2011 11:22:43 PM PDT by freejohn
This poster hails from the beginning of the Reconstruction era, just after the Civil War ended. The poster is correct in some respects. The so-called “Radical Republicans,” in and out of the US Congress, favored suffrage (voting rights) for the newly freed slaves. That policy was opposed in large part by the Democratic Party, using language that was sometimes viciously racist. Note that this poster was made by a northern Democrat, illustrating how divisive the issues of race and black rights were at the time even outside the South.
Source: Library of Congress CALL NUMBER: Broadside Collection, portfolio 159, no. 9 c-Rare Bk Coll. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g05342.
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Maybe I made the mistake of reading this as ‘suffrage’ means voting rights for blacks and the Republicans were for it and the Dims were against it?
Bluntly, we need to trash the media myth about Republicans and racism. We have Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley etc. and they are where they are because they are GOOD, not because of their ethnic backgrounds. We conservatives are truly color-blind.
That’s what I took from the article and the poster.
Dims saw color while the Republicans saw a person not being allowed to vote?
Lincoln - Republican.
In favor of voting rights for freed slaves - Republicans.
In SUPPORT of slavery (1860) - Southern DEMOCRATS.
Majority of KKK members (1800s/early 1900s) - DEMOCRATS.
Major opposition to Civil Rights Act (1863 AND 1963) - DEMOCRATS.
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