Posted on 08/30/2010 12:36:25 PM PDT by Michael Zak
On this day in 1890, President Benjamin Harrison (R-IN) signed into law the Second Land-Grant College Act. The law, written by Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT), made African-Americans eligible to attend land-grant colleges. Specifically, the law required any state that banned African-Americans from attending land-grant colleges to establish land-grant colleges for those students. Back then, there was no legal or judicial means for the federal government to compel state governments to cease racial discrimination, so this law was actually a big step forward.
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They were the Slave Owners.
They invented the Ku Klux Klan!
They passed laws to insure Negros couldn't vote, (the Poll Tax).
They built "Separate but Equal Schools" to insure interracial strife.
Why do the Blacks worship the Demoncrats?
Dunnoh!
Our local Democrat party honors it’s outstanding members (read those who steal most effectively) at a dinner named for two slaveowners - Jefferson and Jackson.
Thanks, but you’re preaching to the choir master. See www.grandoldpartisan.com for more information. Cheers,
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