Roosevelt's New Deal: Anti-Black Legislation

[PoliticalChic]

1. During the “old” Supreme Court, often referred to as the Lochner era, the court struck down laws that favored monopolies as violations of the “privileges and immunities” clauses of the 5th and 14th amendments. This meant that blacks (or any other less preferred group) had a powerful weapon in dealing with racial discrimination in the market place: the right to work for lower wages.


2. Up until the New Deal. The National Recovery Act (NRA…1933) established codes that required the payment of set wages for certain industries. And who established the codes? The same union-business folks who saw to the exclusion of blacks in the first place.

a. Set wages reduced an employer’s incentive to hire blacks.
Sitkofff, “A New Deal for Blacks,” p. 330-335.
Since there was no economic advantage in it, why engender the hostility of white workers?

b. Many employers either dismissed black workers and hired whites in their place, or eliminated the lower level jobs held by blacks because the mandated wages were above the value of the job.
Wolters, “Negroes and the Great Depression,” p. 122-123.



3. Section 7a of the NRA certified unions as exclusive bargaining agents. It became a vehicle to push Negroes out of an industry, and/or to make the union totally white. The black press referred to the act as “Negroes Ruined Again,” and “No Roosevelt Again.”
Williams, "Race & Economics," chapter five.



4. In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled the NRA unconstitutional. New Dealers mourned…but blacks cheered. Not for long- section 7a of the NRA became section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), called the Wagner Act (1935). Sure enough, unions became the sole collective bargaining unit. The Act banned company unions, and allowed barring non-members from employment. Wagner had dropped the anti-discrimination clause in order to gain union support. Most New Dealers thought that discrimination against blacks was an acceptable cost of economic recovery.
Sitkoff, Op.Cit., p.52.

a. Interesting to note the difference between the Roosevelt Court, and the ‘Lochner’ Court, in which Peckham wrote for the majority: “In the Court’s view, the hour limits therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which says no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Lochner Isn

b. In two NLRB cases, in 1945, first the board ruled that a bargaining agent must represent all employees fairly (Lazarus & Brother)….then turned around and decided that segregation and exclusion of blacks from union membership was not an unfair labor practice (Atlanta Oak Flooring).




5. New Deal legislation was devastating for blacks. In 1930, the unemployment rate was 6.13% nationally…but only 5.17% for blacks. 1930 was the last year more whites than blacks would be unemployed. Vedder and Galloway, “Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America,” table 1.3, p.8.

 

[Trajan]

you're wasting your time

he refused to integrate the armed forces as well. He signed an exec order in 41 I think it was, creating a fair employment commission, but like most commissions, it didn't have much of an impact. And that was only after the union for railroad porters under Philip Randolph threatened to strike. Don't even get started on Wilson...

 

[regent]

Blacks began voting Democratic with FDR's election and probably for the same reason whites voted FDR. Blacks, however, did not consider themselves Democrats until later. How FDR felt about Black problems is debatable, but Eleanor was a constant thorn to FDR about Black Americans and their problems. Arthurdale West Va. was one of those Eleanor thorns.

 

[Unkotare]

FDR was, of course, a horrible racist.

 

[Jackson]

1. During the “old” Supreme Court, often referred to as the Lochner era, the court struck down laws that favored monopolies as violations of the “privileges and immunities” clauses of the 5th and 14th amendments. This meant that blacks (or any other less preferred group) had a powerful weapon in dealing with racial discrimination in the market place: the right to work for lower wages.


2. Up until the New Deal. The National Recovery Act (NRA…1933) established codes that required the payment of set wages for certain industries. And who established the codes? The same union-business folks who saw to the exclusion of blacks in the first place.

a. Set wages reduced an employer’s incentive to hire blacks.
Sitkofff, “A New Deal for Blacks,” p. 330-335.
Since there was no economic advantage in it, why engender the hostility of white workers?

b. Many employers either dismissed black workers and hired whites in their place, or eliminated the lower level jobs held by blacks because the mandated wages were above the value of the job.
Wolters, “Negroes and the Great Depression,” p. 122-123.



3. Section 7a of the NRA certified unions as exclusive bargaining agents. It became a vehicle to push Negroes out of an industry, and/or to make the union totally white. The black press referred to the act as “Negroes Ruined Again,” and “No Roosevelt Again.”
Williams, "Race & Economics," chapter five.



4. In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled the NRA unconstitutional. New Dealers mourned…but blacks cheered. Not for long- section 7a of the NRA became section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), called the Wagner Act (1935). Sure enough, unions became the sole collective bargaining unit. The Act banned company unions, and allowed barring non-members from employment. Wagner had dropped the anti-discrimination clause in order to gain union support. Most New Dealers thought that discrimination against blacks was an acceptable cost of economic recovery.
Sitkoff, Op.Cit., p.52.

a. Interesting to note the difference between the Roosevelt Court, and the ‘Lochner’ Court, in which Peckham wrote for the majority: “In the Court’s view, the hour limits therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which says no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Lochner Isn

b. In two NLRB cases, in 1945, first the board ruled that a bargaining agent must represent all employees fairly (Lazarus & Brother)….then turned around and decided that segregation and exclusion of blacks from union membership was not an unfair labor practice (Atlanta Oak Flooring).




5. New Deal legislation was devastating for blacks. In 1930, the unemployment rate was 6.13% nationally…but only 5.17% for blacks. 1930 was the last year more whites than blacks would be unemployed. Vedder and Galloway, “Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America,” table 1.3, p.8.

What an ointeresting piece of history! Thank you!

 

[PoliticalChic]

you're wasting your time

he refused to integrate the armed forces as well. He signed an exec order in 41 I think it was, creating a fair employment commission, but like most commissions, it didn't have much of an impact. And that was only after the union for railroad porters under Philip Randolph threatened to strike. Don't even get started on Wilson...

Yes, indeed....

...the Railway Labor Act was amended in 1934. It forced employers to negotiate wieth certified union representatives, but, of course, nearly all railroad unions banned black membership.

And here is the best part: when blacks tried to form their own unions, the National Railroad Adjustment Board ruled that they couldn't represent the blacks, and only the white unions had a monopoly.


Even the Supreme Court piled on in 'Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks vs UTSEA,' ruling that no judicial review was possible.

 

[Pheonixops]

you're wasting your time

he refused to integrate the armed forces as well. He signed an exec order in 41 I think it was, creating a fair employment commission, but like most commissions, it didn't have much of an impact. And that was only after the union for railroad porters under Philip Randolph threatened to strike. Don't even get started on Wilson...

Yes, indeed....

...the Railway Labor Act was amended in 1934. It forced employers to negotiate wieth certified union representatives, but, of course, nearly all railroad unions banned black membership.

And here is the best part: when blacks tried to form their own unions, the National Railroad Adjustment Board ruled that they couldn't represent the blacks, and only the white unions had a monopoly.


Even the Supreme Court piled on in 'Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks vs UTSEA,' ruling that no judicial review was possible.

So what's your main point regarding FDR?

 

[uscitizen]

And Lincoln was gay, his lover was Joshua Speed.

 

[rightwinger]

1. During the “old” Supreme Court, often referred to as the Lochner era, the court struck down laws that favored monopolies as violations of the “privileges and immunities” clauses of the 5th and 14th amendments. This meant that blacks (or any other less preferred group) had a powerful weapon in dealing with racial discrimination in the market place: the right to work for lower wages.


2. Up until the New Deal. The National Recovery Act (NRA…1933) established codes that required the payment of set wages for certain industries. And who established the codes? The same union-business folks who saw to the exclusion of blacks in the first place.

a. Set wages reduced an employer’s incentive to hire blacks.
Sitkofff, “A New Deal for Blacks,” p. 330-335.
Since there was no economic advantage in it, why engender the hostility of white workers?

b. Many employers either dismissed black workers and hired whites in their place, or eliminated the lower level jobs held by blacks because the mandated wages were above the value of the job.
Wolters, “Negroes and the Great Depression,” p. 122-123.



3. Section 7a of the NRA certified unions as exclusive bargaining agents. It became a vehicle to push Negroes out of an industry, and/or to make the union totally white. The black press referred to the act as “Negroes Ruined Again,” and “No Roosevelt Again.”
Williams, "Race & Economics," chapter five.



4. In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled the NRA unconstitutional. New Dealers mourned…but blacks cheered. Not for long- section 7a of the NRA became section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), called the Wagner Act (1935). Sure enough, unions became the sole collective bargaining unit. The Act banned company unions, and allowed barring non-members from employment. Wagner had dropped the anti-discrimination clause in order to gain union support. Most New Dealers thought that discrimination against blacks was an acceptable cost of economic recovery.
Sitkoff, Op.Cit., p.52.

a. Interesting to note the difference between the Roosevelt Court, and the ‘Lochner’ Court, in which Peckham wrote for the majority: “In the Court’s view, the hour limits therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which says no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Lochner Isn

b. In two NLRB cases, in 1945, first the board ruled that a bargaining agent must represent all employees fairly (Lazarus & Brother)….then turned around and decided that segregation and exclusion of blacks from union membership was not an unfair labor practice (Atlanta Oak Flooring).




5. New Deal legislation was devastating for blacks. In 1930, the unemployment rate was 6.13% nationally…but only 5.17% for blacks. 1930 was the last year more whites than blacks would be unemployed. Vedder and Galloway, “Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America,” table 1.3, p.8.

What were Republicans doing for blacks in the 1930s?

 

[Pheonixops]

1. During the “old” Supreme Court, often referred to as the Lochner era, the court struck down laws that favored monopolies as violations of the “privileges and immunities” clauses of the 5th and 14th amendments. This meant that blacks (or any other less preferred group) had a powerful weapon in dealing with racial discrimination in the market place: the right to work for lower wages.


2. Up until the New Deal. The National Recovery Act (NRA…1933) established codes that required the payment of set wages for certain industries. And who established the codes? The same union-business folks who saw to the exclusion of blacks in the first place.

a. Set wages reduced an employer’s incentive to hire blacks.
Sitkofff, “A New Deal for Blacks,” p. 330-335.
Since there was no economic advantage in it, why engender the hostility of white workers?

b. Many employers either dismissed black workers and hired whites in their place, or eliminated the lower level jobs held by blacks because the mandated wages were above the value of the job.
Wolters, “Negroes and the Great Depression,” p. 122-123.



3. Section 7a of the NRA certified unions as exclusive bargaining agents. It became a vehicle to push Negroes out of an industry, and/or to make the union totally white. The black press referred to the act as “Negroes Ruined Again,” and “No Roosevelt Again.”
Williams, "Race & Economics," chapter five.



4. In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled the NRA unconstitutional. New Dealers mourned…but blacks cheered. Not for long- section 7a of the NRA became section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), called the Wagner Act (1935). Sure enough, unions became the sole collective bargaining unit. The Act banned company unions, and allowed barring non-members from employment. Wagner had dropped the anti-discrimination clause in order to gain union support. Most New Dealers thought that discrimination against blacks was an acceptable cost of economic recovery.
Sitkoff, Op.Cit., p.52.

a. Interesting to note the difference between the Roosevelt Court, and the ‘Lochner’ Court, in which Peckham wrote for the majority: “In the Court’s view, the hour limits therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which says no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Lochner Isn

b. In two NLRB cases, in 1945, first the board ruled that a bargaining agent must represent all employees fairly (Lazarus & Brother)….then turned around and decided that segregation and exclusion of blacks from union membership was not an unfair labor practice (Atlanta Oak Flooring).




5. New Deal legislation was devastating for blacks. In 1930, the unemployment rate was 6.13% nationally…but only 5.17% for blacks. 1930 was the last year more whites than blacks would be unemployed. Vedder and Galloway, “Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America,” table 1.3, p.8.

What were Republicans doing for blacks in the 1930s?

That was gong to be my next question!

 

[Moonglow]

FDR could not include blacks because the populace of the USA was not willing to allow forced integration. The social adherance to equal but seperate was deeply entrenched in the minds of American citizens. Lynching were still occurrung in the '30's which is a fine example of societies pariah status for blacks.

 

[Unkotare]

1. During the “old” Supreme Court, often referred to as the Lochner era, the court struck down laws that favored monopolies as violations of the “privileges and immunities” clauses of the 5th and 14th amendments. This meant that blacks (or any other less preferred group) had a powerful weapon in dealing with racial discrimination in the market place: the right to work for lower wages.


2. Up until the New Deal. The National Recovery Act (NRA…1933) established codes that required the payment of set wages for certain industries. And who established the codes? The same union-business folks who saw to the exclusion of blacks in the first place.

a. Set wages reduced an employer’s incentive to hire blacks.
Sitkofff, “A New Deal for Blacks,” p. 330-335.
Since there was no economic advantage in it, why engender the hostility of white workers?

b. Many employers either dismissed black workers and hired whites in their place, or eliminated the lower level jobs held by blacks because the mandated wages were above the value of the job.
Wolters, “Negroes and the Great Depression,” p. 122-123.



3. Section 7a of the NRA certified unions as exclusive bargaining agents. It became a vehicle to push Negroes out of an industry, and/or to make the union totally white. The black press referred to the act as “Negroes Ruined Again,” and “No Roosevelt Again.”
Williams, "Race & Economics," chapter five.



4. In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled the NRA unconstitutional. New Dealers mourned…but blacks cheered. Not for long- section 7a of the NRA became section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), called the Wagner Act (1935). Sure enough, unions became the sole collective bargaining unit. The Act banned company unions, and allowed barring non-members from employment. Wagner had dropped the anti-discrimination clause in order to gain union support. Most New Dealers thought that discrimination against blacks was an acceptable cost of economic recovery.
Sitkoff, Op.Cit., p.52.

a. Interesting to note the difference between the Roosevelt Court, and the ‘Lochner’ Court, in which Peckham wrote for the majority: “In the Court’s view, the hour limits therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which says no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Lochner Isn

b. In two NLRB cases, in 1945, first the board ruled that a bargaining agent must represent all employees fairly (Lazarus & Brother)….then turned around and decided that segregation and exclusion of blacks from union membership was not an unfair labor practice (Atlanta Oak Flooring).




5. New Deal legislation was devastating for blacks. In 1930, the unemployment rate was 6.13% nationally…but only 5.17% for blacks. 1930 was the last year more whites than blacks would be unemployed. Vedder and Galloway, “Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America,” table 1.3, p.8.

What were Republicans doing for blacks in the 1930s?

Aside from proposing things like anti-lynching legislation only to be blocked by democrats in Congress?

 

[rightwinger]

1. During the “old” Supreme Court, often referred to as the Lochner era, the court struck down laws that favored monopolies as violations of the “privileges and immunities” clauses of the 5th and 14th amendments. This meant that blacks (or any other less preferred group) had a powerful weapon in dealing with racial discrimination in the market place: the right to work for lower wages.


2. Up until the New Deal. The National Recovery Act (NRA…1933) established codes that required the payment of set wages for certain industries. And who established the codes? The same union-business folks who saw to the exclusion of blacks in the first place.

a. Set wages reduced an employer’s incentive to hire blacks.
Sitkofff, “A New Deal for Blacks,” p. 330-335.
Since there was no economic advantage in it, why engender the hostility of white workers?

b. Many employers either dismissed black workers and hired whites in their place, or eliminated the lower level jobs held by blacks because the mandated wages were above the value of the job.
Wolters, “Negroes and the Great Depression,” p. 122-123.



3. Section 7a of the NRA certified unions as exclusive bargaining agents. It became a vehicle to push Negroes out of an industry, and/or to make the union totally white. The black press referred to the act as “Negroes Ruined Again,” and “No Roosevelt Again.”
Williams, "Race & Economics," chapter five.



4. In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled the NRA unconstitutional. New Dealers mourned…but blacks cheered. Not for long- section 7a of the NRA became section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), called the Wagner Act (1935). Sure enough, unions became the sole collective bargaining unit. The Act banned company unions, and allowed barring non-members from employment. Wagner had dropped the anti-discrimination clause in order to gain union support. Most New Dealers thought that discrimination against blacks was an acceptable cost of economic recovery.
Sitkoff, Op.Cit., p.52.

a. Interesting to note the difference between the Roosevelt Court, and the ‘Lochner’ Court, in which Peckham wrote for the majority: “In the Court’s view, the hour limits therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which says no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Lochner Isn

b. In two NLRB cases, in 1945, first the board ruled that a bargaining agent must represent all employees fairly (Lazarus & Brother)….then turned around and decided that segregation and exclusion of blacks from union membership was not an unfair labor practice (Atlanta Oak Flooring).




5. New Deal legislation was devastating for blacks. In 1930, the unemployment rate was 6.13% nationally…but only 5.17% for blacks. 1930 was the last year more whites than blacks would be unemployed. Vedder and Galloway, “Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America,” table 1.3, p.8.

What were Republicans doing for blacks in the 1930s?

Aside from proposing things like anti-lynching legislation only to be blocked by democrats in Congress?

Who presented it?

I'd like to see who opposed it

 

[rightwinger]

FDR could not include blacks because the populace of the USA was not willing to allow forced integration. The social adherance to equal but seperate was deeply entrenched in the minds of American citizens. Lynching were still occurrung in the '30's which is a fine example of societies pariah status for blacks.

Every era has to be looked at from the perspective of the people of that era. Keep in mind, women had only gotten the vote ten years before. FDR brought about societal change but he could only move so fast

 

[Unkotare]

What were Republicans doing for blacks in the 1930s?

Aside from proposing things like anti-lynching legislation only to be blocked by democrats in Congress?

Who presented it?

I'd like to see who opposed it

Take your pick, there were a few of them. Start with the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill way back in 1922 and the same pattern continued on through the 30s. Some democrats even sponsored legislation, supported by Republicans, only to be thwarted - often via filibuster - by their fellow democrats.

 

[Unkotare]

FDR could not include blacks because the populace of the USA was not willing to allow forced integration. The social adherance to equal but seperate was deeply entrenched in the minds of American citizens. Lynching were still occurrung in the '30's which is a fine example of societies pariah status for blacks.

Every era has to be looked at from the perspective of the people of that era. Keep in mind, women had only gotten the vote ten years before. FDR brought about societal change but he could only move so fast

Fuck that bullshit. He was a racist piece of shit.

 

[PoliticalChic]

you're wasting your time

he refused to integrate the armed forces as well. He signed an exec order in 41 I think it was, creating a fair employment commission, but like most commissions, it didn't have much of an impact. And that was only after the union for railroad porters under Philip Randolph threatened to strike. Don't even get started on Wilson...

Yes, indeed....

...the Railway Labor Act was amended in 1934. It forced employers to negotiate wieth certified union representatives, but, of course, nearly all railroad unions banned black membership.

And here is the best part: when blacks tried to form their own unions, the National Railroad Adjustment Board ruled that they couldn't represent the blacks, and only the white unions had a monopoly.


Even the Supreme Court piled on in 'Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks vs UTSEA,' ruling that no judicial review was possible.

So what's your main point regarding FDR?

1. This, from chapter two of "Demonic," by Coulter:

The mob characteristic most gustily exhibited by liberals is the tendency to worship and idolize their political leaders. Le Bon explained that mobs can only grasp the “very simple and very exaggerated.” Their chosen images must be absolute and uncompromising… As Le Bon says, the “primitive” black-and-white emotions of a crowd slip easily into “infatuation for an individual.” Liberals worship so many political deities that they must refer to them by initials, just to save time- FDR, JFK, RFK, MLK, LBJ, and O.J. Ever hear a conservative get weepy about “RWR” or refer to something as hokey as “Camelot”? Passionate adoration are the primitive emotions of a mob, sentiments generally associated with women, children, and savages, according to Le Bon.


a. "The question of unused quota places is important because when American Jewish refugee advocates privately asked the Roosevelt administration, in the 1930s, to permit more immigration, they were told nothing could be done,..."
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome

b. "Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast..."
Japanese American internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



2. "So what's your main point regarding FDR?"

That he doesn't deserve to be idolized.

 

[PoliticalChic]

And Lincoln was gay, his lover was Joshua Speed.

So's yer cat!!

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. During the “old” Supreme Court, often referred to as the Lochner era, the court struck down laws that favored monopolies as violations of the “privileges and immunities” clauses of the 5th and 14th amendments. This meant that blacks (or any other less preferred group) had a powerful weapon in dealing with racial discrimination in the market place: the right to work for lower wages.


2. Up until the New Deal. The National Recovery Act (NRA…1933) established codes that required the payment of set wages for certain industries. And who established the codes? The same union-business folks who saw to the exclusion of blacks in the first place.

a. Set wages reduced an employer’s incentive to hire blacks.
Sitkofff, “A New Deal for Blacks,” p. 330-335.
Since there was no economic advantage in it, why engender the hostility of white workers?

b. Many employers either dismissed black workers and hired whites in their place, or eliminated the lower level jobs held by blacks because the mandated wages were above the value of the job.
Wolters, “Negroes and the Great Depression,” p. 122-123.



3. Section 7a of the NRA certified unions as exclusive bargaining agents. It became a vehicle to push Negroes out of an industry, and/or to make the union totally white. The black press referred to the act as “Negroes Ruined Again,” and “No Roosevelt Again.”
Williams, "Race & Economics," chapter five.



4. In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled the NRA unconstitutional. New Dealers mourned…but blacks cheered. Not for long- section 7a of the NRA became section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), called the Wagner Act (1935). Sure enough, unions became the sole collective bargaining unit. The Act banned company unions, and allowed barring non-members from employment. Wagner had dropped the anti-discrimination clause in order to gain union support. Most New Dealers thought that discrimination against blacks was an acceptable cost of economic recovery.
Sitkoff, Op.Cit., p.52.

a. Interesting to note the difference between the Roosevelt Court, and the ‘Lochner’ Court, in which Peckham wrote for the majority: “In the Court’s view, the hour limits therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which says no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Lochner Isn

b. In two NLRB cases, in 1945, first the board ruled that a bargaining agent must represent all employees fairly (Lazarus & Brother)….then turned around and decided that segregation and exclusion of blacks from union membership was not an unfair labor practice (Atlanta Oak Flooring).




5. New Deal legislation was devastating for blacks. In 1930, the unemployment rate was 6.13% nationally…but only 5.17% for blacks. 1930 was the last year more whites than blacks would be unemployed. Vedder and Galloway, “Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America,” table 1.3, p.8.

What were Republicans doing for blacks in the 1930s?

And you'd like to restrict the discussion to the '30's because of this?


Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:

a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP

Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican because:
The Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Democrats.

Republicans founded the HCBU's and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.

Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.

Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.

Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.

Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_the_democratic_party_associated_with_the_KKKmore: Was the democratic party associated with the KKK

 

[PoliticalChic]

FDR could not include blacks because the populace of the USA was not willing to allow forced integration. The social adherance to equal but seperate was deeply entrenched in the minds of American citizens. Lynching were still occurrung in the '30's which is a fine example of societies pariah status for blacks.

Every era has to be looked at from the perspective of the people of that era. Keep in mind, women had only gotten the vote ten years before. FDR brought about societal change but he could only move so fast

Thank you for bringing up Women's Suffrage....another Republican cause.


1. It was a Republican who introduced what became the 19th Amendment, women’s suffrage. On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann (1856-1922), a Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. The measure passed the House 304-89—a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. 19th Amendment — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

2. The 1919 vote in the House of Representatives was possible because Republicans had retaken control of the House. Attempts to get it passed through Democrat-controlled Congresses had failed.


3. The Senate vote was approved only after a Democrat filibuster; and 82% of the Republican Senators voted for it….and 54% of the Democrats.


4. 26 of the 36 states that ratified the 19th Amendment had Republican legislatures.
See chapter four of Prager's "Still The Best Hope."


Ain't history great?