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President Roosevelt called Democrat Klansman Sen. [[Theodore Bilbo]] "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ New Deal . . . Conservatives?] ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> Bilbo claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the New Deal."<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ A History of Liberal White Racism, Cont.] ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref>  In a 1938 filibuster against anti-[[lynching]] legislation, Bilbo said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]” by encouraging Black men to rape white women.<ref name="segregationinamerica.eji.org">https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html</ref>

President Roosevelt called Democrat Klansman Sen. [[Theodore Bilbo]] "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ New Deal . . . Conservatives?] ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> Bilbo claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the New Deal."<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ A History of Liberal White Racism, Cont.] ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref>  In a 1938 filibuster against anti-[[lynching]] legislation, Bilbo said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]” by encouraging Black men to rape white women.<ref name="segregationinamerica.eji.org">https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html</ref>

Not until the [[United States Presidential Election, 1960|presidential election of 1960]] when John Kennedy intervened for the release of Martin Luther King, who was jailed by local Democrats two weeks before the election in Atlanta following a non-violent protest,.<ref>[https://time.com/4817240/martin-luther-king-john-kennedy-phone-call/ John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Phone Call That Changed History], BY STEVEN LEVINGSTON, ''[[Time magazine]]'', JUNE 20, 2017. time.com</ref> did the majority of Blacks begin voting Democratic ''en bloc''.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/07/14/331298996/why-did-black-voters-flee-the-republican-party-in-the-1960s Why Did Black Voters Flee The Republican Party In The 1960s?], Karen Grigsby Bates, JULY 14, 2014. npr.or</ref> The transition was solidified four years later when anti-Vietnam war candidate Barry Goldwater defied Republican Congressional leadership and voted with Southern Democrats to oppose the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Not until the [[United States presidential election, 1960|presidential election of 1960]] when John Kennedy intervened for the release of Martin Luther King, who was jailed by local Democrats two weeks before the election in Atlanta following a non-violent protest,.<ref>[https://time.com/4817240/martin-luther-king-john-kennedy-phone-call/ John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Phone Call That Changed History], BY STEVEN LEVINGSTON, ''[[Time magazine]]'', JUNE 20, 2017. time.com</ref> did the majority of Blacks begin voting Democratic ''en bloc''.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/07/14/331298996/why-did-black-voters-flee-the-republican-party-in-the-1960s Why Did Black Voters Flee The Republican Party In The 1960s?], Karen Grigsby Bates, JULY 14, 2014. npr.or</ref> The transition was solidified four years later when anti-Vietnam war candidate Barry Goldwater defied Republican Congressional leadership and voted with Southern Democrats to oppose the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Franklin Roosevelt's Georgia Warm Springs Polio Rehabilitation Center, founded by Roosevelt in the 1920s before he became president, maintained a Whites-only admission policy. This discrimination was sustained by a [[scientific]] argument about polio itself - that Blacks were not susceptible to the disease.<ref>''[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854857/#!po=67.8125 Race and the Politics of Polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of Dimes]'', Naomi Rogers, PhD. American Journal of Public Health, May 2007.</ref> The center continued to practice [[racial discrimination]] into the 1960s until it was finally struck down by a federal Appeals Court ruling and changes made in the [[Civil Rights Act]].

Franklin Roosevelt's Georgia Warm Springs Polio Rehabilitation Center, founded by Roosevelt in the 1920s before he became president, maintained a Whites-only admission policy. This discrimination was sustained by a [[scientific]] argument about polio itself - that Blacks were not susceptible to the disease.<ref>''[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854857/#!po=67.8125 Race and the Politics of Polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of Dimes]'', Naomi Rogers, PhD. American Journal of Public Health, May 2007.</ref> The center continued to practice [[racial discrimination]] into the 1960s until it was finally struck down by a federal Appeals Court ruling and changes made in the [[Civil Rights Act]].