Democrat Senator Robert Byrd was a KKK member AND a democrat - I believe Obama spoke at his funeral the funeral of a different former KKK member.. And yeah, democrats knew their own history - they lied about it. There were many rumors around that time that LBJ (democrat president) was a former KKK member in Texas.
George Wallace who ‘stood in the School House Door’ to stop black children from integrating schools in the Jim Crow South was a democrat (who later became an Independent - but NEVER a Republican)
Bull Connor who unleased dogs on Civil Rights workers was a democrat.
The KKK and White Citizens Council were democrat filled organizations.
The three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964 were ALL killed by registered democrats.
The men who tortured and murdered Emmet Till were democrats. (His Aunt raised him in Chicago - not his mother)
When MLK did his most important civil rights work he was a
registered Republican. Later he switched parties.
Democrats in the Jim Crow South - when they knew they had lost the issue went from, “Blacks can do no right - to blacks can do no wrong’. Both positions damaged the black community. Democrats ran to the front of the civil rights parade shortly after Republicans passed major civil rights legislation in 1963/1964 - legislation opposed by democrats.
George Wallace was always a democrat except for that one of his several presidential runs when he went 3rd party and then went back to running for governor (and winning) as a democrat.
MLK wasn’t a republican.
Today’s leaders are worse than plantation owners. Try leaving the Communist plantation.