Wait a minute..
The party of Lincoln was also the party of Martin Luther King and his father....
The Democrat Party was the party of the KKK, and the slave owners of the south..
Roger Taney...a Jacksonian Democrat, was made Chief Justice by Jackson(the founder of the Democrat Party). Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), that ruled, among other things, that African-Americans, having been considered inferior at the time the United States Constitution was drafted, were not part of the original community of citizens and, whether free or slave, could not be considered citizens of the United States, which created an uproar among abolitionists and the free states of the northern U.S. Note: The Dred Scott decision was during the term of Democrat President James Buchanan.
Jefferson Davis..... politician who served as the President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He was a member of the Democratic Party who represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives prior to becoming president of the Confederacy. He was the 23rd United States Secretary of War, serving under U.S. President Franklin Pierce from 1853 to 1857.
Robert E Lee... Lee served as a senior military adviser to President Jefferson Davis. After the war, Lee supported Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s program of Reconstruction while opposing the Radical Republican proposals to give freed slaves the vote and take the vote away from ex-Confederates.
Thank you for that history lesson!