From: not@now.com   
      
   The actual history of democrats vs Republicans on race issues:   
      
       October 13, 1858   
       During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL)   
   states:   
   "I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my   
   brother, or any kin to me whatever"; Douglas became Democratic Party's 1860   
   presidential nominee   
      
       April 16, 1862   
       President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia;   
   in   
   Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no   
      
       July 17, 1862   
       Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes   
   Confiscation   
   Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy "shall be forever free"   
      
       January 31, 1865   
       13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous   
   Republican support, intense Democrat opposition   
      
       April 8, 1865   
       13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100%   
   Republican   
   support, 63% Democrat opposition   
      
       November 22, 1865   
       Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting   
   "black   
   codes," which institutionalized racial discrimination   
      
       February 5, 1866   
       U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully   
   opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement "40 acres and a   
   mule"   
   relief by distributing land to former slaves   
      
       April 9, 1866   
       Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson's veto; Civil   
   Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans,   
   becomes law   
      
       May 10, 1866   
       U.S. House passes Republicans' 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process   
   and   
   equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no   
      
       June 8, 1866   
       U.S. Senate passes Republicans' 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process   
   and   
   equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and   
   100% of Democrats vote no   
      
       January 8, 1867   
       Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson's veto of law   
   granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.   
      
       July 19, 1867   
       Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson's veto   
   of   
   legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans   
      
       March 30, 1868   
       Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew   
   Johnson,   
   who declared: "This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am   
   President, it shall be a government of white men"   
      
       September 12, 1868   
       Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and 24 other African-Americans in   
   Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would   
   later be reinstated by Republican Congress   
      
       October 7, 1868   
       Republicans denounce Democratic Party's national campaign theme: "This   
   is a   
   white man's country: Let white men rule"   
      
       October 22, 1868   
       While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds   
   (R-AR)   
   is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan   
      
       December 10, 1869   
       Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation   
   law   
   granting women right to vote and to hold public office   
      
       February 3, 1870   
       After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat   
   opposition,   
   Republicans' 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans   
   regardless of race   
      
      
       May 31, 1870   
       President U.S. Grant signs Republicans' Enforcement Act, providing stiff   
   penalties for depriving any American's civil rights   
      
       June 22, 1870   
       Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the   
   civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South   
      
       September 6, 1870   
       Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women's suffrage signed   
   into   
   law by Republican Gov. John Campbell   
      
       February 28, 1871   
       Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection   
   for   
   African-American voters   
      
       April 20, 1871   
       Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic   
   Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans   
      
       October 10, 1871   
       Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting,   
   African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by   
   Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands   
      
       October 18, 1871   
       After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses   
   Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku   
   Klux   
   Klan   
      
       November 18, 1872   
       Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady   
   Stanton that she voted for "the Republican ticket, straight"   
      
       January 17, 1874   
       Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts   
   to   
   racially integrate government   
      
       September 14, 1874   
       Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to   
   overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William   
   Kellogg; 27 killed   
      
      
       March 1, 1875   
       Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations   
   without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed   
   with   
   92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition   
      
       January 10, 1878   
       U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment   
   for   
   women's suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before   
   election   
   of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans   
   foil   
   Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where they belong   
      
       February 8, 1894   
       Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal   
   Republicans' Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote   
      
       January 15, 1901   
       Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party's   
   refusal   
   to permit voting by African-Americans   
      
       May 29, 1902   
       Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by   
   Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%   
      
       February 12, 1909   
       On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, African-American   
   Republicans and women's suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the   
   NAACP   
      
       May 21, 1919   
       Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote   
   with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80%   
   of   
   Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no   
      
       August 18, 1920   
       Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part   
   of   
   Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled   
   legislatures   
      
       January 26, 1922   
       House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making   
   lynching   
   a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster   
      
       June 2, 1924   
      
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