'''Stalwart''' was a term used to describe the post-[[Reconstruction]] [[conservative]] wing of the [[Republican Party]] from 1877-1894 that stood firmly for equal rights for [[African American]]s and opposed [[Jim Crow]] and the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. They opposed the Jim Crow Democrats' efforts to rebuild the [[Democratic party]] in the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] era with a [[civil service system]] that discriminated against [[Black]]s. They favored the traditional [[spoils system]]. They were led by [[Senator]] [[Roscoe Conkling]] of [[New York]] and supported [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and were successors of the [[Radical Republicans]] who strongly opposed [[slavery]].
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'''Stalwart''' was a term used to describe the post-[[Reconstruction]] [[conservative]] wing of the [[Republican Party]] from 1877–1894 that stood firmly for equal rights for [[African American]]s and opposed [[Jim Crow]] and the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. They opposed the Jim Crow Democrats' efforts to rebuild the [[Democratic party]] in the post-[[American Civil War|Civil War]] era with a [[civil service system]] that discriminated against [[Black]]s, instead favoring the traditional [[spoils system]]. They were led by [[Senator]] [[Roscoe Conkling]] of [[New York]] and supported [[Ulysses S. Grant]]; they were successors of the [[Radical Republicans]] who strongly opposed [[slavery]].