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Civil Rights Movement (view source)
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[[File:Martin-luther-king.jpg|thumb|300px|Martin Luther King Jr from the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall in Washington DC.]]
[[File:Martin-luther-king.jpg|thumb|300px|Martin Luther King Jr from the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall in Washington DC.]]
The '''civil rights movement''' was a movement towards racial equality and an end to segregation of [[African Americans]] that occurred in the [[United States]] from about 1953 to 1968, as courts and [[Congress]] made segregation illegal and imposed strict laws attempting to ensure that blacks could be able to vote.
The '''civil rights movement''' was a movement towards racial equality and an end to segregation of [[African Americans]] that occurred in the [[United States]] from about 1953 to 1968, as courts and [[Congress]] made segregation illegal and imposed strict laws attempting to ensure that blacks could be able to vote.
==GOP Role in Civil Rights==
The GOP always voted in higher percentages for civil rights bills from the 1860s when Republican Abraham Lincoln overturned slavery to the 1960s when the Civil Rights Act was passed.<ref>Parks, B. [http://www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie The Democrat Race Lie]. BlackAndRight.com.<br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_federal_civil_rights_legislation</ref>
*1865: 13th amendment banning slavery passed by Republican president Abraham Lincoln with unanimous Republican support and most Democrats opposed.
*1866: 14th amendment giving due process and equal protection to all races passes with 100% of Democrats voting no in House and Senate.
*1870: 15th amendment giving all the right to vote regardless of race passes house with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition.
*1875: Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed by Republican president U.S. Grant with 92% Republican support and 100% Democrat opposition.
*1919: Republican House passes amendment giving women the right to vote, 85% of Republicans vote yes to 54% of Democrats and 80% of Republicans in Senate vote yes but nearly half of Democrats vote no.
*1924: Republican president Calvin Coolidge signs law passed by Republican Congress giving Native Americans the right to vote.
*1957: Republican president Dwight Eisenhower signs the Republican Party's 1957 civil rights act.
*1964: Civil Rights Act ending segregation and voter restrictions is passed with 80% of Republicans in the House and 82% in the Senate voting yes, but only 63% of Democrats voting yes in the House and 69% in the Senate.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_party</ref>After passing the Civil Rights Act, Democratic president Lyndon B. Johnson brags "I'll have those n****** voting Democratic for the next 200 years."<ref>The Relentless Conservative (2011, August 24). [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-relentless-conservative/the-democratic-partys-two_b_933995.html The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations]. The Huffington Post.</ref>
*1965: Voting Rights Act passed to remove racial voter discriminations against blacks and hispanics with 82% of Republicans voting yes to 78% of Democrats in the House, and 94% of Republicans in the Senate to 73% of Democrats in the Senate.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act#Vote_count</ref>
*1973: Only 2 of the 112 racist Democrats who opposed the civil rights act of 1964 actually switched to the Republican Party, John Jarman and Strom Thurmond. All the racist Democrats who'd opposed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s were the same ones who in the 1970s supported Roe v. Wade. They went straight from supporting lynching to supporting abortion.
==Reconstruction and Jim Crow==
==Reconstruction and Jim Crow==