Republicans Led the Way on Civil Rights

American Thinker.com ^ | July 20, 2020 | Jonathan Moseley

[Kaslin]

The Republican Party was founded largely to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence that “All Men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.”

Republicans cannot represent who we are to the American people if we forget who we are and accept attempts to distort and change our history. Instead of sincerely apologizing, Democrats simply lie about Republicans.

Including the conveniently sidelined Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Grand Old Party has actually led the way on civil rights, constitutional rights, and equality before the law. The Civil Rights Acts were important Republican accomplishments that we must not let the country forget.

It started with the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Eisenhower endorsed civil rights legislation in his 1956 State of the Union Address. Running on a civil rights platform, the GOP incumbent then easily defeated Democrat candidate Adlai Stevenson and increased his vote totals in the South in 1956 over the 1952 election.

In 1957, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent Congress a proposal for civil rights legislation, which he proposed in his 1957 State of the Union address, designed the bill, engineered it through Congress, and signed the first civil rights bill into law since Reconstruction.

Senator Everett Dirksen (R-IL) introduced the civil rights bill on behalf of the Eisenhower Administration and assumed leadership to move the bill through the Senate. Republican Dirksen declared that “Since 1945 I have been introducing bills for civil rights.”

Back when Republicans actually had backbones, the Republican National Committee issued a press release on August 6, 1957, attacking then U.S. Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson (D-TX) for opposing the Republican civil rights legislation. The RNC exposed how Democrats including LBJ as late as 1957 were fighting against the rights of African-Americans.

[caww]

[Phlap]

Lincoln was a republican but if you didn’t know, you wouldn’t know.

[sima_yi]

Actually, this goes back to the Dred Scott decision. People generally think this decision was unanimous, but it was actually 7 - 2, with the seven being either Democrat or appointed by Democrat presidents, and the two being Whigs (one of whom later resigned in disgust over this decision).

What most people don't know is that the Republican Party was founded by Whigs and anti-slavery Democrats, for the purpose of stopping the spread of slavery.

[Cobra64]

The first 10 minutes of Dinesh D’Sousa’s movie clearly demonstrates the facts about how the dems resisted abolition. . The Stupid Party could use that material in campaign ads.

[Impy]

And it was all for nought cause they let crackers keep treating black people like dog doo for another hundred years after they were free so many of them are still an unruly underclass that sadly is destroying this country with crime but most of all with it’s votes. :(