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Democrats disenfranchised African-Americans in Virginia

Source: Grand Old Partisan  |   May 24 2013, 10:04am CDT

On this day in 1900, Republicans voted NO in a referendum for a constitutional convention in Virginia to create a new state constitution intended to deprive African-Americans of their right to vote. With overwhelming Democrat support, t ...

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On this day in 1856, Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) was assaulted by a Democrat congressman

Source: Grand Old Partisan  |   May 22 2013, 7:26am CDT

On this day in 1856, Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC) beat Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) nearly to death. Outraged by Sumner's criticism of slavery and slave-holders, the Democrat congressman attacked Sumner as h ...

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saluting John Langston, yet another African-American Republican civil rights hero

Source: Grand Old Partisan  |   May 19 2013, 6:08pm CDT

On this day in 1870, African-American law professor John Langston delivered an influential speech praising the civil rights policies of Republican President Ulysses Grant. Langston (R-VA) would later ser ...

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a Republican wrote the Brown v. Board of Education decision

Source: Grand Old Partisan  |   May 17 2013, 3:39pm CDT

As they struggle to regain the political initiative, Republicans would do well to remember the GOP's heritage of civil rights achievement. On this day in 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in publi ...

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