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[justiceseeker93]

No question that the overall Republican record on rights for blacks - from the inception of the Republican Party c. 1854 until this very day - is clearly superior to that of the Democrats.

I've heard this subject debated quite a bit, and the preponderance of the historical evidence over 156 years favors the GOP. For example, the Dems can say that it was LBJ that pushed the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts through a Dem Congress, but the GOP can counter that a significantly larger percentage of Republican senators and representatives voted for these bills than their Democratic counterparts. Also, there is no doubt that the Dems were the pro-slavery party in the years leading up to the Civil War and the party of Jim Crow in the period after Reconstruction.

Incidentally, although most blacks switched their allegiance from the GOP to the Dems during Roosevelt's New Deal era, Franklin Roosevelt himself not only snubbed the two greatest black celebrities of that era - sprinter Jesse Owens and boxer Joe Louis - but sicced his IRS on both of them, since both happened to retain loyalties to the Republicans.