1863 The Republican Party’s first president, Abraham Lincoln, issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1.
After the Civil War Republican-controlled Congress passed the 13th,14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, guaranteeing equal protection and due process, and addressing the African American's right to vote.
1866 Republican senators (94%) and Republican House members (96%) approved the 14th Amendment, Every congressional Democrat voted: "No."
1868 Opelousas, Louisiana: Democrats killed nearly 300 African Americans for trying to stop an assault on a Republican newspaper editor.
Late 19th century Democrat governors and Democrat-controlled state legislatures in the South passed Jim Crow laws. Compassionate Democrats lynched hundreds of African Americans each year under these laws while the liberal press acted as cheerleaders.
1868 Republicans spoke against the Democrats' national slogan: "This is a white man's country: Let white men rule."
Democrats created a nearly century-long, legal racial caste system that relegated African Americans to the lowest educational, political, economic and social strata.
Democrats throughout the United States organized and ran America's premier terrorist organization – the Ku Klux Klan.
1871 The Republican Congress passed the KKK Act, banning the pro-Democrat terrorist group.
1871 The Republican Congress passed the Enforcement Act, giving black voters federal protection.
1872 Republican Pinckney Benton Stewart "P.B.S." Pinchback became America's first African American governor.
1874 White Democrat racists stormed Louisiana's statehouse, killing 27 of Republican Governor William Kellogg's racially integrated administration.
1878 Republican and former U.S. Representative, James Rapier became America's first African American Collector of IRS.
1894 Democrat President Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress repealed the Republican’s Enforcement Act, the Republican act had given African American voters federal protection, but the Democrats removed that protection.
1901 Republican President Theodore Roosevelt invited Republican educator Booker T. Washington, America’s first African American dinner guest, to the White House. The Richmond Times newspaper gave this warning: "White women may receive attentions from Negro men."
1904 Democrats used a campaign button with the Democrat nominee beside a white couple and Roosevelt beside a white bride and black groom and the words: "The Choice Is Yours."
1913 Democrat President Wilson introduced segregation into the federal government.
1915 The NAACP was appalled when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson expressed his approval of the film, "Birth of a Nation." The NAACP launched a nationwide protest against the film and a public protest against Democrat President Wilson.
1920 Republican Warren G. Harding was elected President on the Republican platform that called for federal anti-lynching legislation. Republican Warren G. Harding scrapped Wilson’s segregation policy.
1922 Republican Harding delivered the most forceful speech ever calling for black equality in Democrat stronghold, Birmingham, Ala.
1922 Republican Leonidas Dyer's bill making lynching a federal crime passed the House of Representatives, but Senate Democrats killed the measure.
1922 Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood published her book "Pivot of Civilization" in which she called for the extirpation of "weeds ... overrunning the human garden;" for the segregation of "morons, misfits, and the maladjusted;" and for the sterilization of "genetically inferior races." Since that time, Planned Parenthood has had a symbiotic relationship with the Democrat Party, in which Planned Parenthood helps elect Democrats and Democrats appropriate Federal Funds to Planned Parenthood.
1935 Until 1935, every African American federal legislator was Republican.
1937 Democratic President FDR nominated Democrat Senator Hugo Black, a former KKK member, to the Supreme Court. Republicans opposed the nomination.
1946 Democrat, Robert Byrd wrote to the KKK's Imperial Wizard: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia."
1950s Democrat governors and Democrat-controlled state legislatures in the South placed the Confederate battle flag on their state capitol flags.
1954 Under Republican chief justice Earl Warren the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for desegregation of government schools in the Brown v. Board of Education decision. In these hearings, Republican President Eisenhower's Justice Dept. argued integration of African American school children, and Democrat John W. Davis fought for a ruling of "separate but equal" classrooms.
1957 Democrat Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, called out his state's National Guard to prevent the integration of Central High School in Little Rock. In response, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent U.S. troops to the city to escort nine frightened African American teens into the school past riotous mobs inflamed by Faubus' defiance of a federal court order.
1959 Democrat, Robert Byrd, former KKK Grand Kleagle, was elected West Virginia senator.
1960 Sen. John F. Kennedy voted against the Civil Rights Act, but the Civil Rights Act passed over Kennedy’s vote, getting the civil rights movement started. Republican President Eisenhower signed the GOP's 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a 5 day, 5 hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats.
1963 Democrat Gov. of Alabama, George Wallace blocked integration of the University of Alabama. Democrat President John F. Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard and ordered its units to the university to force its doors open to African American students.
1964 Democrat, Robert Kennedy assisted the FBI's efforts to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by approving the wiretapping of the Dr. King.
1964 The 1964 Civil Rights Act became law with overwhelming Republican support triumphing over extreme Democrat opposition.
1965 The 1965 Voting Rights Act became law with overwhelming GOP support triumphing over extreme Democrat opposition. Former Klansman Robert Byrd staged a 14-hour filibuster. Twenty-three Senate Democrats (including Tennessee's Al Gore, Sr.) tried to scuttle the measure. Republican Everett Dirksen rallied 26 GOP senators and 44 Democrats to kill the filibuster. Though 66% Democrats did vote to allow the passage, 82% of GOP voted for the measure. GOP Senator Barry Goldwater opposed this bill, but this was because he feared the Act would limit freedom of association in the private sector, and he didn’t oppose it for racial reasons. Goldwater long supported Civil Rights, the 1957 Act, the 1960 Act, the integration of Arizona's National Guard, etc.
Late 1960s Republican President Richard Nixon implemented the Nation’s first affirmative action program with the Philadelphia Plan.
1975 Republican President Gerald Ford promoted Daniel James to be the Air Force's first African American 4 general.
1982 Republican President Reagan promoted Roscoe Robinson to become the Army's first African American 4 star general.
1982 Republican President Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1983 Republican President Reagan became the first president to so honor an African American when he declared Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday.
1991 Republicans scorned former KKK member, David Duke, when he ran for Louisiana governor as a Republican.
2000 Republican President George W. Bush appointed African Americans to the highest positions in government ever occupied by blacks in America, most notably National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Note the absence of black appointees in the Democrat Clinton administration (but he can meaninglessly feel your pain). Also, in the War with Iraq (a battle in the War on Terror) the Vice Chief of Operations at Central Command was Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, who is black.
2005 Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd, former KKK Grand Kleagle, stalled Condoleezza Rice’s appointment to Secretary of State for one week.
Present In public opinion polls on school choice, African Americans want the freedom to move their children from failed public schools to schools where their children can succeed. Republicans are in favor of school choice. Democrats oppose black freedom of choice.
Present African Americans are among the most devout and evangelical Christians in this Christian Nation. They are the most likely, of all race groups in the Church, to believe that the Bible is the Word of God without error. Democrats increasingly find themselves opposing Bible-based morality, and supporting causes that are anti-Bible and anti-Christian. Republicans end up defending Bible-based morality and supporting causes that are pro-Bible and pro-Christian. The list includes abortion, evolutionism vs creation science, drugs, homosexuality, fornication, the Christian work ethic, and defense of marriage. On all these issues, Democrats have not supported the values of the African American community--which are the values of the Christian community.
Present The mainstream media is controlled by Democrats, mainly white, who paint a picture that is out of sync with reality. An overwhelming majority of the members of the press are white Democrats.
Present Republicans support a color-neutral government. Democrats and the mainstream media want to either own blacks through debilitating social programs or to limit them through the methods shown in all the history here listed. The black vote seems to be important to the Democrats, but not the blacks themselves.
Present The press continues to accuse the Republicans of racism, and the Republicans don’t have the backbone to answer. Why do most black people think that liberal Democrats are their friends? The press is very powerful in forming opinions, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Republicans need to find their voices.
This history is gleaned from a May 2003 article by Perry Drake, and a 2005 article by Deroy Murdock.
"Alas, even as Republicans promote work over welfare, educational choice, and personal retirement accounts, all of which would empower blacks, some 90 percent of blacks vote Democrat as reflexively as knees kick when tapped with rubber mallets." Deroy Murdock>
