TIMELINE of CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICA:
Love that this was done by PBS. Shuts the stupid liberals up every time.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_democratic.html
“The Democratic Party identified itself as the “white man’s party” and demonized the Republican Party as being “Negro dominated,” even though whites were in control. Determined to re-capture the South, Southern Democrats “redeemed” state after state — sometimes peacefully, other times by fraud and violence. By 1877, when Reconstruction was officially over, the Democratic Party controlled every Southern state.”