On Monday's "Good Morning America," co-host Robin Roberts chose to tout only Democratic politicians in a piece honoring the civil rights movement and those "warriors" who made Barack Obama's election as president possible. Not a single Republican was mentioned or featured in the segment. Roberts began by announcing, "And on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we thought it would be appropriate to look back at all the warriors, black and white, who made this moment where we are today possible."
All the warriors? The piece went on to feature clips from eight Democratic politicians: Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Barbara Jordan and Barack Obama, in addition to a number of non-political civil rights pioneers. Republican Abraham Lincoln went unmentioned, so did New York Governor Thomas Dewey who signed one of the nation's earliest civil rights laws in 1944 and President Ronald Reagan who made Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday in 1983.
The piece also ignored the inconvenient fact that a higher percentage of Congressional Republicans voted for the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act than did Democrats. Another point left unmentioned was the heroic effort by the conservative GOP minority leader in the Senate, Everett Dirksen, in supporting that legislation:
Story Continues Below Ad ↓Sen. Thomas Kuchel of California led the Republican pro-civil rights forces. But it became clear who among the Republicans was going to get the job done; that man was conservative Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen.
He was the master key to victory for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Without him and the Republican vote, the Act would have been dead in the water for years to come. LBJ and Humphrey knew that without Dirksen the Civil Rights Act was going nowhere.
Dirksen became a tireless supporter, suffering bouts of ill health because of his efforts in behalf of crafting and passing the Civil Rights Act. Nonetheless, Sen. Dirksen suffered the same fate as many Republicans and conservatives do today.
For more, see a December 14, 2002 article by Diane Alden on NewsMax.com.
Roberts began the segment by repeating, "And there's a phrase we've been hearing so much I want to share with you. 'Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked so Obama could run. Obama ran so our children can fly.'" It would have been nice if GMA found time to highlight some of the many pro-civil rights politicians in the Republican Party.
A transcript of the segment, which aired at 8:15am on January 19, follows:
ROBIN ROBERTS: And there's a phrase we've been hearing so much I want to share with you. 'Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked so Obama could run. Obama ran so our children can fly.' And on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we thought it would be appropriate to look back at all the warriors, black and white, who made this moment where we are today possible.
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE (1939): Democracy is for me and for 12 million black Americans a goal to which our nation is marching. It is a dream and an idea whose ultimate realization we have a deep and abiding faith.
PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN (1947): There is no justifiable reason for discrimination because of ancestry or religion or race or color.
HUBERT HUMPHREY (1948): For those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them, we are 172 years late.
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY (1963): 100 years of delay has passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons are not fully free. And this nation for all its hopes and all its boasts will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
MARTIN LUTHER KING: I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
MALCOM X (1964): Our forefathers weren't the pilgrims. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us. So what you and I have got to do is get involved. You and I have to be right there breathing down their throat. Every time they look over their shoulder, we want them to see us. We want to make them -we want to make them have the strongest civil rights bill they've ever passed.
FANNIE LOU HAMER (1964): I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hook because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live in peace as human beings in America?
PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON (1965): But, really, it's all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL (1966): We have never lynched. We have never shot. We never burnt a church. We've never beaten people. We've never taken them to jail. That is the question for white America. The real question is can she civilize herself before we get ready to civilize her?
MARTIN LUTHER KING: I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (1968): We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times, but the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
BARBARA JORDAN (1976): We are a people and a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are attempting to fulfill our national purpose to create and sustain a society in which all of us are equal.
REVEREND JESSE JACKSON (1984): We've experienced pain but progress as we ended America's apartheid laws. We lost Malcolm, Martin, Medgar, Bobby, John and Viola. The team that got us here must be expanded not abandoned.
PRESIDENT ELECT BARACK OBAMA: If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
—Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.





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Did they mention Robert Byrd....?
January 19, 2009 - 17:41 ET by superconHe was a big supporter of civil rights.
Because with a name like Obama... you know it has to be good.
Or Bill Clinton's mentor...
January 19, 2009 - 18:09 ET by Prester John....William Fulbright?
Fulbright signed The Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. He subsequently joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as voting against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._William_Fulbright
Indeed, Prester..
January 19, 2009 - 19:45 ET by Gary HallSen. Robert Byrd, (D) cherished by our MSM
And on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
http://www.senate.go...
So sorry, Senator Robert Byrd
Orwells 1984
January 19, 2009 - 17:41 ET by rick007This book says it all.
Delete it from the history books and soon it will appear that it never happend.
No kidding. The
January 19, 2009 - 17:57 ET by motherbeltNo kidding.
The rewriting of history goes on.
And there's a phrase we've been hearing so much I want to share with
you. 'Rosa sat so Martin could walk. Martin walked so Obama could run.
Obama ran so our children can fly.'
Really, Robin????
Exactly WHERE have you been hearing that so much?????
Name one person who has said it before you.
Granted, I've been avoiding a lot of political shows and news on TV, but I think if that was being thrown around "so much" I would have stumbled across it somewhere.....
Is anyone else familiar with this supposedly ubiquitous saying?
And what the hell does "so our children can fly" mean, anyway?????
Our children wouldn't be able to succeed if Obama hadn't run for President?????????????????
I swear I can't take any more of this.
<sound of duct tape being ripped off roll>
OK. I think I'm better now.
Actually they did mention
January 19, 2009 - 17:59 ET by BlazerActually they did mention one Republican. Martin Luther King. Even King knew what party most of the racists belonged to.
More revisionist history and disinformation from the DNC mouthpiece. These folks in the MSM and the leftists in control of Congress over the next four years will be in maximum overdrive trying to snuff out conservatism once and for all. This will be a witchhunt.
If anyone thought that after the election it was time for redoubt and reflection or that the left would simmer down and be appeased by having their messiah elected, I assure you it's time for us to fight harder than we ever have and we desperately need new blood and leadership on the right and fast.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Blaze... Boy oh boy...
January 19, 2009 - 18:09 ET by bigtimerBlaze...
Boy oh boy... did you ever say it all.
The msm always seems to manage to ignore the facts of who were 'R's and 'D's that fought for the blacks civil rights.
Conveniently.
Agenda always seems to be fulfilled for the left...doesn't it.
I totally agree with all of your post...all of it.
John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy,
January 19, 2009 - 17:55 ET by CarlosSAll ardent supporers of the FBI investigation activities of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including authorizing wiretap orders...
Too bad I missed it.
January 19, 2009 - 17:56 ET by Willis_Leon_JohnsonDid she mention how much effort and political capital little brain johnson spent trying his best to make sure the Civil Rights Bill never saw the light of day?
Did she brag up all the democrats that fought so valiantly against it, and voted against it?
Did she explain how only a few democrats passed the legislation over the wishes of the majority of the democrat party without all the Republicans helping push it through?
A "REAL" journalist would have told the entire story.
Sorry, I forgot, there aren't any 'journalists' in the 'side show media'.
So they didnt mention Charlton Heston?
January 19, 2009 - 18:08 ET by HanoverfistHe marcked with MLK.
Hell that makes him blacker than Obama!
Charlton was the first one that came to my mind also.
January 19, 2009 - 18:12 ET by JTPBut he does not fit the media template.
"I need more cowbell!" SNL
The Anti-MLK
January 19, 2009 - 21:04 ET by nkviking75He marcked with MLK.
Hell that makes him blacker than Obama!
In fairness to Obama, he was a kid at the time. Still, the hidden truth about Obama is that he and his supporters use race as a wedge to get what they want. Opposing him is racist. Voting against him is racist. Questioning his qualifications is racist. As I've said before, Obama has been judged by the color of his skin and not by the content of his character. He's such a cypher that we really don't know what his character is like. He's the anti-MLK.
Welcome to the era of unity, you racist!
Orwells 1984 "This
January 19, 2009 - 18:35 ET by chessplayerOrwells 1984
"This book says it all.
Delete it from the history books and soon it will appear that it never happend."
Thats exactly their goal. They are scumbags.
Time for an encore!
January 19, 2009 - 18:35 ET by ChadOnce again, Democrats and Rublicans in the civil rights movement:
United States History of Racism Against Blacks
The Republican Party was formed in 1854 specifically to oppose the Democrats, and for more than 150 years, they have done everything they could to block the Democrat agenda. In their abuses of power, they have even used threats and military violence to thwart the Democrat Party’s attempts to make this a progressive country. As you read the following Republican atrocities that span three centuries, imagine if you will, what a far different nation the United States would be had not the Republicans been around to block the Democrats’ efforts.
March 20, 1854 Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party
May 30, 1854 Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party
June 16, 1854 Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party
July 6, 1854 First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
February 11, 1856 Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in President Lincoln’s Cabinet
February 22, 1856 First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
March 27, 1856 First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
May 22, 1856 For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover
March 6, 1857 Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”
June 26, 1857 Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is “cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks
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
October 25, 1858 U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation
June 4, 1860 Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery
April 7, 1862 President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade
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 2, 1862 U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act, establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as George Washington Carver
July 17, 1862 Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”
August 19, 1862 Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation
August 25, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of African-American soldiers in U.S. Army
September 22, 1862 Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect
February 9, 1864 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery
June 15, 1864 Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War
June 28, 1864 Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts
October 29, 1864 African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”
January 31, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition
March 3, 1865 Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves
April 8, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition
June 19, 1865 On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation
November 22, 1865 Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination
December 6, 1865 Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified
In 1866 the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Democrats as a Tennessee social club. The Ku Klux Klan became a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy
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
April 19, 1866 Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery
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
July 16, 1866 Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman's Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights
July 28, 1866 Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen
July 30, 1866 Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150
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”
May 20, 1868 Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors
September 3, 1868 25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress
September 12, 1868 Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress
September 28, 1868 Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor
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
November 3, 1868 Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation
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 19, 1870 African-American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies
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
March 22, 1871 Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina
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
September 20, 1876 Former state Attorney General Robert Ingersoll (R-IL) tells veterans: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat… I am a Republican because it is the only free party that ever existed”
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
July 14, 1884 Republicans criticize Democratic Party’s nomination of racist U.S. Senator Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) for vice president; he had voted against the 13th Amendment banning slavery
August 30, 1890 Republican President Benjamin Harrison signs legislation by U.S. Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT) making African-Americans eligible for land-grant colleges in the South
June 7, 1892 In a FIRST for a major U.S. political party, two women – Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attend Republican National Convention in an official capacity, as alternate delegates
February 8, 1894 Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote
December 11, 1895 African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans
May 18, 1896 Republican Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting from Supreme Court’s notorious Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” decision, declares: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens”
December 31, 1898 Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools
May 24, 1900 Republicans vote no in referendum for constitutional convention in Virginia, designed to create a new state constitution disenfranchising African-Americans
January 15, 1901 Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans
October 16, 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country
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
June 18, 1912 African-American Robert Church, founder of Lincoln Leagues to register black voters in Tennessee, attends 1912 Republican National Convention as delegate; eventually serves as delegate at 8 conventions
August 1, 1916 Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, former New York Governor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, endorses women’s suffrage constitutional amendment; he would become Secretary of State and Chief Justice
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
April 18, 1920 Minnesota’s FIRST-in-the-nation anti-lynching law, promoted by African-American Republican Nellie Francis, signed by Republican Gov. Jacob Preus
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 Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans
October 3, 1924 Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention
December 8, 1924 Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in favor of “separate but equal”
June 12, 1929 First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country
August 17, 1937 Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation
June 24, 1940 Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it
October 20, 1942 60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto, calling on southern Democrats to abolish their all-white primaries
April 3, 1944 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas Democratic Party’s “whites only” primary election system
August 8, 1945 Republicans condemn Harry Truman's surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that "[t]he use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."
February 18, 1946 Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools
July 11, 1952 Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity” of Democrats in racial matters
September 30, 1953 Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education
December 8, 1953 Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education
May 17, 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA) and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of Supreme Court for school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education
November 25, 1955 Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel
March 12, 1956 Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation
June 5, 1956 Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law
October 19, 1956 On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”
November 6, 1956 African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President
September 9, 1957 President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act
September 24, 1957 Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools
June 23, 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights
February 4, 1959 President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many Democrats
May 6, 1960 President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
July 27, 1960 At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in platform
May 2, 1963 Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights
June 1, 1963 Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate University of Alabama
September 29, 1963 Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School
June 9, 1964 Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate
June 10, 1964 Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirkson, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
June 20, 1964 The Chicago Defender, renowned African-American newspaper, praises Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) for leading passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act
March 7, 1965 Police under the command of Democrat Governor George Wallace attack African-Americans demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, AL
March 21, 1965 Republican federal judge Frank Johnson authorizes Martin Luther King’s protest march from Selma to Montgomery, overruling Democrat Governor George Wallace
August 4, 1965 Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose
August 6, 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor
July 8, 1970 In special message to Congress, President Richard Nixon calls for reversal of policy of forced termination of Native American rights and benefits
September 17, 1971 Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he had defended Klansmen for racial murders
February 19, 1976 President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII
September 15, 1981 President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs
June 29, 1982 President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act
August 10, 1988 President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR
November 21, 1991 President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation
August 20, 1996 Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes law
April 26, 1999 Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) awarding Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is transmitted to President
January 25, 2001 U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee declares school choice to be “Educational Emancipation”
March 19, 2003 Republican U.S. Representatives of Hispanic and Portuguese descent form Congressional Hispanic Conference
May 23, 2003 U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduces bill to establish National Museum of African American History and Culture
February 26, 2004 Hispanic Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-TX) condemns racist comments by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL); she had called Asst. Secretary of State Roger Noriega and several Hispanic Congressmen “a bunch of white men...you all look alike to me”
~Chad
Cincinnati, OH
Chad.... WOW! Thank you
January 19, 2009 - 18:41 ET by bigtimerChad....
WOW!
Thank you so much for all of this.
Heck, facts like these matter not to the talking heads, let alone the politicians with 'D's behind their name...sadly, the blacks included.
Thank you, but the effort
January 19, 2009 - 18:47 ET by ChadThank you, but the effort was only collecting what is publically available on the internet.
I don't expect to change the minds of the media elite, but if we make an effort to spread the truth, perhaps we can make a difference at the grassroots level.
~Chad
Cincinnati, OH
Game, Set, Match...Republicans
January 19, 2009 - 18:42 ET by CapeCodScottBut, do you expect them to pay attention to facts? They get in the way of the MSM's conclusions and shows their bias...
www.ScottOnCapeCod.com
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!
Chad, Wow.
January 19, 2009 - 18:48 ET by R D HelmI think you covered it rather nicely.
-Dave
“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.
Don't forget which party....
January 19, 2009 - 18:58 ET by superconput Clarence Thomas on the bench.Who made Colin Powell Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?Which party made him and a black woman Secretaries of State and the official voice of the U.S.?
Who put the first Hispanic American in as Attorney General...?
Who spent more money to combat AIDS in Africa than anyone else.
Because with a name like Obama... you know it has to be good.
Thank you Chad, Click on the (D) in my tag line...
January 19, 2009 - 20:21 ET by upcountrywaterBut first check this pic..
Could you add this to your list?
"Republican Martin Luther King, was killed by a democrat James Earl Ray?..
FREEDOM
(D)
Robin Roberts is about ignorant.
January 19, 2009 - 18:46 ET by R D HelmHow does someone this painfully uneducated manage to get on a national news broadcast?
-Dave
“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.
She had more credibility
January 19, 2009 - 18:55 ET by motherbeltShe had more credibility when she was on the Food Network cooking with Emeril on his show.
→ Unforgiveable CBS
January 19, 2009 - 18:53 ET by Cool ArrowAfter Senator Everett Dircksen fought off such bigots as Robert Byrd and Al Gore Senior, CBS wants to rewrite this page of history without mentioning him?
Martin Luther King is the only Republican mentioned?
I hope CBS goes as financially bankrupt as they are morally. And please God? Soon.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Muslim, Khalil Gibran
They DID mention one Republican...
January 19, 2009 - 18:54 ET by Plumb BobWithout knowing it, they did mention one Republican.
Martin Luther King, himself, was a registered Republican. However, I doubt that we'll get any mainstream press employee to believe it.
Yeah we got them civil
January 19, 2009 - 19:13 ET by ConservativeRexYeah we got them civil rights.
And a helluva git we got.
Hm
January 19, 2009 - 19:27 ET by RainsfordWasn't MLK Jr. a registered Republican?
MLK
January 19, 2009 - 20:56 ET by rick007But MLK was a Rep.
Democrats are aware of their history.
January 19, 2009 - 23:23 ET by pbthinkerThe Democrats know they were on the wrong side of the civil rights issue for a long time, that's why they have their media wing constantly lie about Republican efforts, in that regard.
I can't believe there is no one, in the media, who doesn't know that Republicans are responsible for most of the legislation involving civil rights. Richard Nixon, and equal opportunity employment (and affirmative action for that matter) Democrats will never allow to get out.
The press is responsible for the position the Republicans are in since they allow the Democrats to constantly lie about their accomplishments.
Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.
DemoKKKrats Were Anti Civil Rights.
January 20, 2009 - 08:20 ET by flyingmonkeyFor all the information above and more, go to the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) website. They don't leave out one iota of the hypocrisy spewed by the Democrats that pertains to civil rights.
MLK was indeed a Republican and todays blacks ought to be ashamed for backing their long time oppressors.
Indeed, Obama's class/culture/race war's chickens roosting...
January 20, 2009 - 13:50 ET by CKA in Red State USAThat his advocacy/adversary media says such absurd things harkens to how the new administriation, its party, its members and its allies will "get even" for being out of the White House for years.
But, as always, they show their ignorance and intellecutal dishonesty.
Were it not for the Republican Party, the Civil Rights Act of 1963 would never have been passed.
The Democrats filibustered it. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), a senator and former Ku Klux Klansman official, spoke for about 18 hours.
Lyndon Johnson called on Republicans to get the bill passed.
The Democrats have been plantation masters of blacks before the Civil War and during the Civil War and, since, but post-Civil War politically.
The Republican Party was formed to counter the slave-owning Democrat Party.
Good thing they've got going. Blacks still bellieve them.