Our nation’s top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.

• Democrats fought to expand slavery  while Republicans fought to end it.
• Democrats passed those  discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
• Democrats supported and passed the  Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
• Democrats supported and passed the  Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
• Democrats supported and backed the Dred  Scott Decision.
• Democrats opposed educating blacks and  murdered our teachers.
• Democrats fought  against anti-lynching laws.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia,  is well-known for having been a “Kleagle”  in the Ku Klux Klan.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West  Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil  Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from  passage.
• Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by  Republicans.
• Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
• Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal  government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
• Democrat President Franklin D.  Roosevelt’s choice for  vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in  Kansas City in  1922.
• Democrat President Franklin D.  Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against  lynching.
• Democrat President Franklin D.  Roosevelt opposed  integration of the armed  forces.
• Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of  the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
• Democrats supported and backed Judge  John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
• Democrats supported the School Board of  Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka  Kansas.
• Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
• Democrats were who Dr. Martin  Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were  fighting.
• Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox  “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
• Democrat Governor George Wallace stood  in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be  segregation forever.
• Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried  to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
• Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights  Act.
• Democrat President John F.  Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr.  King.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr.  King wiretapped and investigated by the  FBI.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William  Fulbright in  1966-67.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the  Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted  against the 1965 Voting Rights  Act.
• Southern Democrats opposed desegregation  and integration.

1. The Emancipation  Proclamation
2. The  13th Amendment
3. The  14th Amendment
4. The  15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of  1867
6. The Civil Rights of  1866
7. The Enforcement  Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of  1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan  Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights  Act of 1875
11. The Freeman  Bureau
12. The Civil Rights  Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights  Act of 1960
14. The  United State Civil Rights Commission

• Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over  the objection of Democrats.
• Republicans founded the HBCU’s (Historical Black College’s and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
• Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights  legislation in Congress.
• Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks  freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
• Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights  legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
• Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to  desegregate the schools.
• Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which  prohibited discrimination in housing.
• Republican and black  American,  A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on  Washington.

After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the average African-American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African-Americans face today. As of 2004, the Democrat Party (the oldest political party in America) has never elected a black man to the United States Senate, the Republicans have elected three.

*** Update***

Since the writing of the article back in 2008, the numbers of Black Americans in our House and Senate are as follows:

During the Reconstruction Era(1863-1877)

During the Modern Era(1877-present)

1. 5 Republicans in the House of Representatives
2. 1 Republican in the Senate
3. 99 Democrats in the House of Representatives
4. 3 Democrats in the Senate
5. 1 Independent in the House of Representatives

As you can see, the party that the Blacks started off in was indeed the Republican Party. It was only after the Reconstruction Era ended and the Modern Era was issued in that the Black Community flocked to the Dixiecrat (Democrat) Party. Why did this change over occur for the Black Community to go from being Republicans to Democrats? There is all kinds of speculation on that! My belief (which may not be yours) is that the Democrat Party and the Klan saw that they had to do something. It was essentially a power-grab that they intended to win. They were loosing power fast and they didn’t want to lose all of their power. Knowing that the majority of Blacks were still fairly uneducated (especially when it came to politics), they did the only thing they could do! They ripped off their sheets, introduced the words “help” and “free” into the picture, and off and running was the Democrat Party for the Black Community. The Democrat Party only saw the Black Community as a bunch of  “useful idiots” and their ticket to power!!!! Think about it…………… – source

YES……..think about it!!  And pass this on…….