What party backed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 , the time G. Wallace was in office ?
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a significant event in converting the Deep South to the Republican Party; in that year most Senatorial Republicans supported the Act (most of the opposition came from Southern Democrats).
Former slaves and their children were forced for decades to endure the cruel, wretched Jim Crow laws that kept them from advancing in the South. And who was all too happy to keep those laws in place? The Democrats.
The Republican Party had planks in its party platforms addressing the rights of African-Americans in the early 20th century. The Democrats, meanwhile, used the KKK as their stormtroopers, lynching and terrorizing blacks in the South beginning just after the Civil War and continued this practice for a century.
As early as 1888, the Republican platform included a plank affirming the “sovereign right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor, native or foreign born, white or black, to cast one free ballot in public elections, and to have that ballot duly counted.”
In 1892, the Republican platform specifically condemned the “inhuman outrages perpetrated upon American citizens for political reasons in certain Southern States of the Union.” The Democrats, those paragons of virtue, refused to include anti-lynching planks or planks addressing racial rights in their platform for all of the early 20th century.
The racist party has ALWAYS been the Democrats , theres to much history to prove otherwise . People can say Trump is a racist all they want but there is nothing to back it up , now the Dems on the otherhand , its all over the history books , at least until they get changed that is. The party with the first black senator ? R - Hiram Revels ,took office in 1870 , the first D ? 1993. if my memory serves me correct , 21 out of the first 25 Representatives were Rs .
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