For some reason your list of Republican Civil Rights accomplishments does not include the names of Southern Republicans who voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
Could you please add those names?
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
“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