Posted on 10/23/2008 12:30:59 PM PDT by uncommonsense
It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism.
It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860's, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's.
During the civil rights era of the 1960's, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. ...it was President Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Senator Al Gore, Sr. And after he became president, John F. Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalblackrepublicans.com ...
Excellent list! It needs to be broadcast far and wide.
I learned these things about the Democrat Party when I was eight years old. (I was homeschooled...If wasn’t homeschooled, I probably wouldn’t have found out). Ever since, I have been a Republican. Neither party sticks to its platform the way that they should, but at least the Republican platform is to stand up for what is right. So many black people I know identify with the Democrats, and I think it because the media paints conservatives as intolerant bigots, standing in the way of progress and civil rights.
Another great Republican, U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, authored and introduced the 1960 Civil Rights Act. It was also he who was most responsible — more than any other individual — for the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. As Republican Leader in the Senate, even though his party was in the minority, Dirksen crafted the strategy that overcame long odds and tenacious Democratic opposition.
The Democrats weren’t just internally conflicted about the 1964 Civil Rights Act; a significant number of them actually filibustered it — preventing an up or down vote on the bill. Eventually, however — thanks to Dirksen’s leadership — this landmark legislation did get the vote it deserved. As with all of the previous civil rights legislation in our nation’s history, it passed with significantly more support from Republicans than from Democrats. The same was true for the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which became law the following year.
http://www.ccrgop.org/CivilRights.htm
http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=973891
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/13/194350.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act
Is there any actual PROOF that he was a Republican? It is my understanding that he voted for Kennedy in 1960 and LBJ in 1964.
bttt
Southern Republicans were about as scarce as hen’s teeth in 1964.
“If you look at the make up of the Senate for the 88th Congress, you can see that each and every one of the Senate seats for these states was 100%, tried and true Democrat.”
http://charliefoxtrotblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/mason-confusion-line.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88th_United_States_Congress
The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the “Southern Bloc” of southern Senators led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage. Said Russell “We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states.”[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
The original House version:
Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%)
Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%)
(this was Senator John Tower of Texas)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
An early version, H.R. 3994, was first introduced by Representative Vito Marcantonio from New York on March 13, 1941, but it died in committee. A second version, H.R. 7142, was introduced by Representative Vito Marcantonio from New York on July 20, 1942, and it also died in committee.
The final House version was H.R. 7152. It was drafted by President John F. Kennedy and introduced in the House by Representative Emanuel “Manny” Celler (D) of New York on June 20, 1963. Co-sponsors included Mr. James Roosevelt of California, and William M. McCulloch (R) .
Senator Everitt Dirksen, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Senator Mike Mansfield, Thomas Kuchel (R-CA), and 38 other senators joined in co-sponsorship of the bill for the omnibus Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the Senate.
Voting Rights Act of 1965 S 1564,
President Lyndon Baines Johnson presented S 1564 to a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1964.
The original sponsors and presenters to Congress (March 18, 1964) were Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (Illinois) and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, who worked to design it with Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach at the request of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Sources: http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_votingrights_contents.htm AND http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64text.htm
“As I point out in my book, Back to Basics for the Republican Party, MLK told Vice President Nixon publicly that he had voted Republican in 1956, but after not voting in 1960 he actually campaigned for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. So, calling MLK a Republican is misleading. See http://www.republicanbasics.com for more information.”
8 posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:06:51 AM by since 1854
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693196/posts
I suspect most of the region's Republicans supported Civil Rights in 1964. There just wasn't many of them in office in 1964. The career of Frank Johnson of Alabama is good place to start if one is interested in learning of pro-civil rights southern Republicans.
My mistake the Civil Rights Act was in 1964.
However, no Republicans from the South voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Try again.
Sen. John Tower of Texas (R) Voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1965 as did the ten GOP Congressman from the South.
Therefore, Civil Rights was a regional issue not a party issue.
btt
I got that form the National Black Republicain Association.
Yes, it was those mean-spirited YANKEE REPUBLICANS who pushed for Civil rights in the south since the JACKASS party had locked up most states at that time.
The Rats need a subservient, reliable underclass to keep them in power to “fix” the problems they create, and “fight” for them.
Conditioned behavior has been ingrained - job well done. This video explains it very well: Yuri Bezmenov, a video on propaganda techniques used by the KGB (“useful idiots”):
“My question is, what the heck happened over the last 30 years? Why don’t more black people understand what’s written here?”
Public School education became a tool to spread liberal propaganda. Too many people’s minds are mush.
I sent this to Drudge.
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