Democrats opposed the 13th Amendment, the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment. Elder was right.Kruse said the claim can be misleading when used to suggest Republicans "were the prime mover on civil rights laws in the 1960s," since the act was proposed by a Democratic president, signed by a Democratic president and passed through a Democrat-led Congress. Fact: The 14th Amendment, giving full citizenship to freed slaves, passed in 1868 with 94% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress. When the House voted on the amendment on June 15, 1864, it only garnered 93 votes, 13 short of the two-thirds majority required for passage.
As a result, the party enjoyed support from the majority of black southerners. "This alignment changes in the 1920s and 1930s," Frantz said, noting how black Americans were swayed to the Democratic Party as Republicans focused on law-and-order policing and Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pushed for social and economic justice.This context matters, because Elder’s claims could imply to many that today’s Democrats would have been pro-slavery in another era.The claim that Republicans did not own slaves is false, and Elder corrected the record on "Republicans were obviously the party of abolition, but there were in fact Republicans who owned slaves," Kruse told us.Francis P. Blair, one of the Republican Party’s founders, owned slaves while he presided over the 1856 Republican convention and was a delegate in 1860, Kruse said.Benjamin Burton, who served twice as a state legislator in Delaware under the Whig party before becoming a Republican later in life, also owned slaves, according to his Blair and Burton were not the only two. FDR received 71% of the Black vote and did well Several liberals within Roosevelt’s administration pushed him to reform the prejudices found in several New Deal programs. stated on July 21, 2020 an episode of his TV show: "It’s accurate that Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.Historians we spoke to said the majority of Reconstruction-era Democrats did, in fact, oppose these three amendments. Why did every House Democrat vote against the 15th Amendment that gave Blacks the right to Vote? The Democrats fought hard to keep the black man down… Yet 91% of blacks vote Democrat… May 10, 1866 U.S. House passes the Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all black citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no!!! "The men who started the Klan were southerners and almost certainly voted Democrat, but that’s a far cry from the claim that the party set up the organization," Kruse said. Question: How many Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment? ""As a percentage of the party, more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964." "Republicans did not own slaves. Highly unlikely.Follow all the topics you care about, and we’ll deliver the best stories for you to your homepage and inbox. The 15th Amendment, giving freed slaves the right to vote, passed in 1870 with 100% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress.
Truman cared about Civil Rights, but he also knew how important the Black vote was in winning an election. Not a single Democrat wanted to let blacks have rights as citizens of America! In fact, they reversed platforms midway through the 20th century.
We reached out to Kevin Kruse, professor of history at Princeton University, who has addressed some of the same claims on One detail we’ll mention at the top: The political parties of the past are not the same parties we know today. An interview with Ismail White, Chryl Laird, and Tasha Philpot by the So what is it that unifies Black Americans so strongly that we don’t find in other demographics? Elaine Frantz, professor of history at Kent State University, said Reconstruction-era Republicans were focused on strengthening federal control over the former confederacy to protect civil rights. "The vote in the House was 144 to 44, with 35 not voting. These two parties do not encapsulate the breadth of public political thought, and they certainly do not reflect the opinions of the Black community. John F. Kennedy won in 1960, and the Democrats were back in the White House.So, will the Republican party ever receive more than 15% of the Black vote?