America has been a force for the good and liberty of ALL!

-Most ancient cultures, existing in a "conquer or be conquered" environment, made slaves of those they conquered; no universally recognized human rights existed.

-At the time of Columbus' voyage, 20%-40% of indigenous peoples were enslaved by their own adversarial tribes as a result of inter-tribal conflicts, putting those indigenous people groups "on par with the slave empires of Greece and Rome"(see 14th paragraph). Some tribes eventually purchased African slaves as well.

One tribe of indigenous people actually kept another tribe's women confined for the purpose of raping them and consuming the children as a delicacy (see 7th paragraph)

-In 1655, Anthony Johnson (a former indentured servant) "fought to retain ownership" of his servant John Casor, which resulted in Casor being declared a "slave for life" 

-"Prior to the 1700s there were more white slaves globally than there were black slaves" (see paragraph 16)

-Southern slave states pushed to have all their slaves counted in the census to have stronger representation in Congress

-The Missouri Compromise was passed by the Democrat-majority Congress, reversing the 1787/1789 Northwest Ordinance, as well as our young nation's 31-year track record of gradually restricting slavery out of existence in America since its founding.

-16% of free blacks in the US owned slaves; 43% in South Carolina; 40% in Louisiana; 26% in Mississippi; 25% in Alabama; 20% in Georgia

-The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by a Democrat Congress, which fined any northern American citizens that didn't return escaped slaves back to the southern states; and it even allowed slave-hunters to seize free blacks and make them slaves (see paragraph 2) 

-The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by Democrat Congress and it pushed slavery further west 

-Democrat Rep. Preston Brooks came into the Senate chamber and beat Republican Sen. Sumner almost to death 

-In 1856, during the presidential election the Democrat platform actively defended slavery

-All 7 Democrat Supreme Court justices supported the Dred Scott decision which stated that blacks were not persons but property

-In 1858, Democrat Senator Stephen Douglas said that people who want black equality "support Mr. Lincoln and the black Republican Party" (see paragraph 16)

-The Native American tradition of keeping slaves had continued up until the Civil War era; 12.5% of the population of the Indian Nations were black slaves

-In 1860, Democrat Stephen Douglas ran for president and the Democratic platform of that year once again actively defended and praised slavery

-Founding of the Confederate States of America; slavery was the most prevalent industry there (see paragraphs 6-8)

-Almost all Democrats voted against this bill that forbade slavery in D.C. (House, and Senate)

-The only party to vote against this bill was the Democrat Party 

-In 1864, Northern Democrat George McCellan ran in the presidential election and he was against black equality

-House Democrats voted 7% for and 93% against the 13th Amendment

-In 1865, Democrats in Mississippi enacted "black codes" which made it legal to treat blacks unequally

-In 1866, the KKK was formed by people in the Democrat party who engaged in violence and murder in order to intimidate and terrorize blacks and whites to prevent them from voting Republican.

-In 1866, Democrats attacked a Republican meeting in New Orleans, killing dozens of blacks, several whites and wounding 150 others. It is known as the New Orleans Massacre of 1866

- 100% of Democrats opposed the 14th Amendment

-Democrat Pres. Andrew Johnson vetoed this bill twice (once in 1865, and once in 1866)

-In 1868, Democrat Pres. Andrew Johnson said: "This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am president, it shall be a government of white men." (see paragraph 2) 

-In 1868, Democrats expelled 24 black Republicans and civil rights leader Tunis Campbell from the Georgia Senate.

-In 1868, the national slogan for the Democrats campaign was "This is a white man's country: Let white men rule" 

-All Democrats opposed this amendment (House, and Senate) 

-No Democrats in the House or Senate supported this bill

-In 1871, African-American (and civil rights activist) Octavius Catto was murdered by Democrat Frank Kelly (this was preceeded by Democrats warning blacks not to vote)  

-None of the Democrats supported this bill (House, and Senate) which punished the violence of the KKK

-In 1871, Democrat E.W. Seibels stated that the KKK 'belonged to..the Democratic Party.' (see paragraph 5)

-No Democrats supported this bill (House and Senate)

-In 1874, armed Democrats took Texas' state government by force, which put an end to Republican's progress working towards racial integration in Texas

-In 1874, 24 black Republicans were brutally murdered by Democrats in the Coushatta Massacre

-In 1874, armed Democrats took the statehouse of Louisiana by force because they wanted to prevent any further racial integration in Louisiana--27 people were killed during this attack

-Every Democrat was against this bill, and southern Democrats passed specific laws to prevent this bill from taking effect in their states (And those laws remained for the next 75 years) 

-Southern Democrats sought to "redeem" their states by taking away blacks political and civil rights (As well as remove the laws against KKK violence)

-In 1892, Democrat Grover Cleveland was re-elected President and Democrats gained control over the House and the Senate (During this time no civil rights laws were passed [see paragraphs 8-9]; some were rescinded) 

-In 1894, both the Democrat President Grover Cleveland and the Democrat congressmen worked to dissolve the Enforcement Acts (which protected blacks civil rights)

-Republican Robert Lloyd Smith (the last black politician in Texas at the time) left the state's House in 1899 and, as a result of the Democrats gerrymandering, no blacks were elected for 70 years

-In 1900, the Democrat majority in Congress was actively trying to remove the 14th and 15th Amendments 

-In 1902, the Democrat majority in Virginia created a new state constitution, reducing the number of black registered voters by 90%

-In 1913, Democrat Pres. Woodrow Wilson took office. He openly defended the KKK and racially resegregated the federal government

-Democrats opposed the concept of this bill for 52 years, and a significant number of Democrats still voted against it (House and Senate)

-Because of Democrat opposition, the anti-lynching bill was never passed by Congress

-In 1921, the Democrat-supported KKK in Oklahoma (which was a predominately Democrat state), violently attacked black Americans and their communities in Greenwood  

-In the 1924 Democrat Convention the decision to condemn the KKK failed. Klan members were Democrat delegates at that convention (see paragraph 5), and the Democrat Party enacted their own procedures to keep blacks from voting in Democrat primaries

-Various chapters of the Democrat party began to use "white only" primaries to suppress black and Hispanic minorities from voting

-In 1929, Democrats all over the country protested Lou Hoover's invitation

-In 1937, Democrat Sen. Hugo Black (a former member of the KKK) was nominated by Democrat Pres. FDR to the Supreme Court

-In 1940, Democrat Pres. FDR rejected Republicans call for racial integration in the military.

-Democrats defeated all of the proposals made by President Truman

-In the 1948 Democratic National Convention, Truman used firm pro-civil rights language, Resulting in southern Democrats leaving the convention to become Dixiecrats

-Democrats in Congress prevented any further progress in civil rights for blacks during Eisenhower's presidency

-Southern Democrats were completely against this ruling (see paragraph 3)

-In 1956, the Southern Manifesto was created by southern Democrats and it condemned the decision made by the Supreme Court to end segregation (In fact, Democrat Texas Governor, Allan Shivers, sent out the Texas rangers to prevent blacks from going into public schools) 

-In 1957, Democrat Sen. James Eastland obstructed all the civil rights proposals that Pres. Eisenhower made (see paragraph 5)

-This Civil Rights bill was opposed by half of the Democrats 

-In 1957, Orval Faubus (Democrat Governor of Arkansas) sent out the national guard to prevent black students from attending Central High School in Little Rock, AR

-In order to avoid any action on desegregation by Pres. Eisenhower, Democrat majorities in the Georgia legislature completely closed all of their public schools (see paragraph 2) and opened private schools that would be run by the state to prevent blacks from attending schools with whites

-This second civil rights proposal made by Pres. Eisenhower was completely opposed by most Democrats. 18 Democrats filibustered against this bill for five whole days

-In 1963, Democrat Bull Connor (who was the the Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama), arrested more than 2,000 black children who were standing up for their rights  

-In 1963, Democrat Gov. George Wallace refused to comply to an order given by district judge Republican Frank Johnson, requiring that the Tuskegee High School integrate (see paragraph 5)

In 1964, Malcolm X called blacks who support Democrats "political chumps"

-Democrat Senators Robert Byrd (former high-ranking leader in the KKK) and Richard Russell lead the fight against this bill, and part of that fight was filibustering so the bill couldn’t be passed (House and Senate)

-Democrats had historically enforced the poll tax prior to this (see paragraph 2); in fact, Democrats continually maintained the poll tax for 85 years

-Democrat support for The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was around 20 points lower than Republican support (House and Senate)

-The Tuskegee Institute doccumented all the lynchings that occurred in America from 1882-1968; the statistics showed that a total of 1,297 whites and 3,446 blacks were lynched in that period of time 

-By 1968, the Democrats still had not ever let one black person preside over their National Convention

-In 1973, Barbara Jordan and Andrew Young were only able to be elected after the Supreme Court eliminated district lines that southern Democrats had put into place

-In 2009, the month after Democrat Pres. Obama's inauguration, his Democrat Attorney General Eric Holder declares America has been essentially a "nation of cowards" regarding race relations

Earliest Record of Human History

1492 - Columbus encounters indigenous people in the New World

1607 - Jamestown becomes the first English settlement in North America

1619 - The first Africans brought to North America came as indentured servants (see paragraph 7)

1620 - English separatiststs seeking religious freedom arrive in Plymouth, MA

1641 - Earliest anti-slavery law passed in the American colonies-- 220 years before the Civil War

1652 - Rhode Island bans slavery

1655 - The first slaveholder in America was a black man 

1688 - The Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery

1700 - The universal history of the global scourge of slavery shifts

1703 - Rhode Island imposes slave import duty

1776 - Jefferson's original Declaration of Independence draft 

1787 - Negotiating the Draft of the US Constitution

1787 & 1789 - The Northwest Ordinance was passed

1790 - The first US Census

1804 - Majority of states have abolished slavery

1808 - Congress abolished the slave trade

1810 - US Census

1820 - US Census

1820 - The Missouri Compromise

1830 - US Census reveals extent of free blacks who owned slaves 

1842 - Slave revolt in Cherokee Nation

1850 - The Fugitive Slave Law was passed

1854 - The Kansas-Nebraska Act

1856 - Violence on Capitol Hill 

1857 - The Dred Scott Decision

1860 - US Census

1860 - The First Republican President

1861 - The beginning of The Civil War

1862 - Slavery abolished in Washington D.C.

1862 - Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act

1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation

1865 - The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in the US

1865 - Black Pastor Rev. Henry Garnet preaches a sermon in the Capitol following the passage of the 13th Amendment 

1866 - Political Violence

1866 - The 14th Amendment providing citizenship and equal rights under the law for former slaves passed

1866 - The Civil Rights Act of 1866

1869 - The first blacks are elected to Congress...and they were all Republicans

1870 - The 15th Amendment forbidding the government or states from negating a citizen's right to vote based on their race passed

1870 - The Enforcement Act of 1870

1870 - The U.S. Department of Justice was created

1871 - The Civil Rights Act of 1871

1871 - The Enforcement Act of 1871

1875 - The Civil Rights Act of 1875

1880 - Southern "Redemption"

1909 - The NAACP was founded

1919 - The 19th Amendment ensures voting rights for women

1921 - Anti-Lynching Bill defeated in Congress

1921 - Tulsa Race Massacre

1924 - Democrat Convention

1927 - U.S. Supreme Court abolishes "white only primaries"

1929 - First Native American Vice President elected

1948 - Supreme Court Ruling: Shelley v. Kraemer

1954 - Supreme Court Ruling: Brown v. Board of Education

1956 - Democrats craft the "Southern Manifesto"

1957 - The Civil Rights Act of 1957

1957 - Southern Democrats actively resist desegregation of schools

1960 - The Civil Rights Act of 1960

1962 - Supreme Court  Ruling: Bailey v. Patterson

1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964

1964 - The 24th  Amendment banning the poll tax passed

1965 - The Voting Rights Act of 1965

1967 - Supreme Court Ruling: Loving v. Virginia

1968 - Political Conventions

1968 - Supreme Court Ruling: Jones v. Mayer

1971 - Supreme Court Ruling: Griggs v. Duke Power

1986 - Supreme Court Ruling: Batson v. Kentucky 

1988 - The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 

2008 - America elects it's first half-black/half-white President

European explorers not only found the universal practice of slavery, brutal treatment of war captives and subjugation of the weak among indigenous people in the Americas, they tried to persuade them to stop their widespread practice of human sacrifice and cannibalism (Don't let the title of this one fool you--Dinesh D'Souza is luring leftists to read it!) 

-The Pilgrims purchased all land they lived on and cultivated from the indigenous people they encountered

-21 years after the Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts makes it a capital crime punishable by death to forcibly abduct a person from their own country and send them to another (see 7th paragraph)

That's 209 years before the Civil War

-In 1655, a white man named Robert Parker (Johnson's neighbor), had secured freedom for Johnson's servant before he was declared "a slave for life"

-In 1688, Christians who had settled in Pennsylvania created the first American document that protests slavery 

-To discourage bringing slaves to Rhode Island, a slave owner was charged 3 pounds per slave. New York and Pennsylvania attempted even more restrictive measures to regulate slavery out of business, but the English crown opposed and nullified their efforts due to the economic benefit of slavery

-Thomas Jefferson wanted to confront the king of England for "suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain" slavery, but 2 southern states did not want this grievance mentioned in the Declaration 

-Framers insisted on the 3/5 Clause to limit the influence of slave-holding states in Congress and set a hard deadline to end the slave trade in the United States in 1808

-Congress expanded its effort to end slavery. This law prohibited slavery in all the federal territories then held, allowing Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin to eventually enter the nation as free states.

-By this time, Massachusetts and Maine had no slaves; Vermont was already down to only 16 slaves left in the entire state. "Nobody else in the world was anywhere close to what those Northern states had succeeded in doing--in this, America was exceptional"(see paragraph 6). The number of free blacks in the US at this census was 59,466--71 years before the Civil War.

-Over half the states passed laws abolishing slavery by 1804--4 years before the slave trade was forcibly ended by mandate of the US Constitution and 57 years before the Civil War. This "wave of emancipation constituted the largest group of people who had voluntarily freed their slaves up to that point in modern history"(see paragraph 5)

-Slave trade formally ended by the United States, just as the Framers intended when they drafted the Constitution, 53 years before the Civil War

-51 years prior to the Civil War, the population of free blacks in the US was 108,395--an 82% increase since 1790(see paragraph 26)

-41 years prior to the Civil War, the population of free blacks in the US was 186,446--a 72% increase since 1810

-African slaves purchased by the Cherokee tribe to work their land escape but are eventually captured and returned

-In 1854, the Republican Party was founded with the ideals of abolishing slavery

-In 1856, Republican Sen. Charles Sumner gave a two-day long speech against slavery prior to being violently attacked

-In 1856, the Republican Party entered its first presidential election and its platform mainly covered issues dealing with equality and civil rights for slaves (It also censured polygamy, which devaluates women)

-Both Republican Supreme Court justices dissent against the majority Dred Scott decision

-In 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln ran for president and the Republican platform of that year completely opposed slavery

-Over the course of the Civil War 300,000 Union soldiers gave their lives to preserve the Union and end slavery

-Pres. Abraham Lincoln enacted a bill which abolished slavery in D.C., and only 1 Republican voted against it (House, and Senate)

-In 1862, the Republican controlled Congress passed this bill, which banned polygamy (Senate)

-All slaves in Confederate states were declared to be free by Republican Pres. Abraham Lincoln

-In 1864, Republican Abraham Lincoln ran for President again and stood for black equality (party platform of 1864; paragraphs 1, 5 and 7)

-House Republicans voted 99% for and 1% against the 13th Amendment

-Republicans extended the invitation to Rev. Garnet to preach at the Capitol

-In 1865, Republican Charles Sumner nominated black attorney John Rock to be the first black man in the U.S. Supreme Court bar.

-In 1865, Republicans rebuked the "black codes" enacted by Democrats in Mississippi (see section "Congressional Reconstruction")

-In 1866, Republican Rep. Thaddeus Stevens presents a piece of legislation that would provide 40 acres of land and a mule to former slaves (4th paragraph) 

-94% of Republicans passed the 14th Amendment

-In 1866, The Republican Senate overrode Pres. Johnson's veto and the bill was passed

-In 1867, The Republican Party of Texas was founded and it consisted of 150 blacks and 20 whites (see paragraph 8).

-In 1868, Republicans began a trial for Pres. Johnson's impeachment

-In 1869, the first black men were elected into congress: Hiram Revels, Joseph Rainey, Robert De Large, and Josiah Walls; who were all Republicans (The first seven black men to be elected into congress were Republicans)

-Republicans passed this amendment (House, and Senate)

-In 1870, Republican Pres. Ulysses Grant signed this bill, which dealt out greater consequences to anyone who denies an American (of any race, status, etc.) of their rights as citizens.  (A vast majority of Republicans voted in favor of this bill in both the House and the Senate) 

-Republican William Lawrence proposed the bill creating the DOJ in order to protect blacks from having their rights violated by southern Democrats (see paragraph 2)

-This bill was passed by Republicans (House, and Senate)

-In 1871, the fifth, sixth and seventh black Americans to be elected into Congress were Jefferson Long, Benjamin Turner, and Robert Elliott--all were Republicans

-Republicans passed both the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871 which criminalized the Ku Klux Klan (and all other groups that afflicted blacks)

-Republicans supported and passed this bill (House, and Senate)

-In 1884, John Roy Lynch was the first black American to direct an American political convention (The Republican National Convention of Chicago) see paragraph 10

-In 1901, Republican President Teddy Roosevelt invited Republican Booker T. Washington to the White House (Washington was the first black to have a meal in the White House with a President)

-In 1909, the NAACP was founded by Ida Wells and Mary Terrell (who were both Republicans)

-The Republican controlled Congress passed this bill that supported women's rights (House and Senate)

-This anti-lynching bill was presented by Republican Leonidas Dyer 

-In 1924, Republican Pres. Calvin Coolidge enacted a bill that gave Native Americans citizenship in the U.S. (Republicans passed this bill) 

-In 1929, Republican Charles Curtis was the first Native American to be elected as Vice President of the US, and he was the running mate of Republican Pres. Hoover

-In 1929, Lou Hoover (wife to Republican Pres. Herbert Hoover) asked the wife of black U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest to have tea at the White House with her

-In 1940, The Republican Party suggested that the military should be desegregated (see section entitled "Negro")

-In 1946, Democrat Harry S. Truman was the first contemporary President to introduce a full analysis of race relations, and he came up with a bill that included: an anti-lynching law, a ban on the poll tax, and desegregating the military. (pages 1, 2, and 5)

-The Supreme Court made it illegal for a state to prevent blacks from living in certain areas

-In 1948, Democrat Pres. Harry Truman issued Executive order 9981 which abolished all discrimination, but this order was not fully carried out until 1954 under Republican Pres. Eisenhower

-In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower (a Republican) was elected president and he made executive orders that were against racial discrimination; he created a plan for protecting the civil rights of blacks in southern Democrat states, and he was the first president to hire a black American to a supervisory position in the White House staff (see paragraph 5).

-This Supreme Court ruling simply restored the civil rights act of 1875 (which was enacted almost 75 years earlier by Republicans)

-In 1955, the administration of Republican Pres. Eisenhower prohibited segregation within buses that travel between states 

-In 1957, Republican Pres. Eisenhower made proposals for a new civil rights bill (The Civil Rights Act of 1957), and he created a division for civil rights in the U.S. Justice Department. It played a significant role in securing civil rights in the south during the 60's and 70's (this also began the Civil Rights Commission)  

-This Civil Rights bill was created by Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and was supported by Republicans

-In 1957, Republican Pres. Eisenhower federalized the national guard (which allowed him to take it away from Gov. Faubus), and in its place he put over 1000 troops from the 101st Airborne division to safeguard the black students who went to Central High School 

-In 1959, Republican Pres. Eisenhower proposed a second civil rights bill to Congress; a majority of the Democrats were against this bill, but Democrat Emanuel Celler took as many measures as possible to keep the bill moving forward despite being opposed by his fellow Democrats

-In 1960, the majority of Republicans voted for this bill

-The Supreme Court ruled that no state can require segregation in their public interstate transportation

-In 1963, Democrat President John F. Kennedy brought forth an important Civil Rights bill to Congress (It was based on Republican Pres. Eisenhower’s 1957 Civil Rights Commission). Pres. Kennedy was vigilant about getting this bill to pass, but was killed in November

-The successor to Pres. John F. Kennedy was Democrat Lyndon Johnson, who took on the Civil Rights bill that Pres. Kennedy was working towards passing (he still was opposed by most of his own party) 

-In order to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Democrat Pres. Lyndon Johnson recruited the help of Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen (House and Senate)

-91% of Republicans voted to pass this Amendment and a smaller majority of Democrats did too

-Both the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, were signed into law by a Democrat President, but they were only able to sign it into law because of the continual support of the Republicans in Congress (House and Senate)

-The Supreme Court abolished the state law in Virginia that forbade interracial marriage 

-Black and white Republicans were called "radicals" because they treated everyone the same, regardless of race; and they were lynched by the KKK because of that fact

-In 1968, black Republican Sen. Edward Brooke lead the National Republican Convention of 1968

-The Supreme Court ruled that no person or company could racially discriminate against others by preventing them from buying their property

-In 1971, (former Democrat turned Republican) Strom Thurmond, was the first southern senator to hire a black person in his office (see paragraph 6)

-The Supreme Court ruled that companies should only hire people based on their ability to do the job, and forbade them from requiring  unnecessary tests before hiring them 

-In 1973, the first black Democrats were elected in the south (Barbara Jordan and Andrew Young)

-In 1976, Republican Pres. Gerald Ford abolished Democrat Pres. FDR's Executive Order 9066 (which forced over 115,000 Japanese American citizens to be put in internment camps)

-In 1981, Republican Pres. Ronald Reagan began an initiative to raise participation for black students in national education programs

-in 1982, Republican Pres. Ronald Reagan extended the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by 25 years 

-The Supreme Court ruled that you cannot use a peremptory challenge to dismiss a member of the jury because of their race

-In 1988, Republican Pres. Ronald Reagan enacted this bill which gave compensation to all the Japanese-American citizens who suffered the loss of their civil rights by being held in internment camps (an executive order made by Democrat Pres. FDR) during World War II

-In 1996, Republican Susan Molinari wrote a bill that prevented racial discrimination in adoption (see paragraph 4)

-Barack Hussein Obama was elected to serve as a Democrat Pres. for two consecutive terms