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Reality Check - 1964 Civil Rights Act: Proposed by Republicans, filibustered by Democrats. MLK was a Republican.

Jim Crow laws: passed by Democrats. - Of the 29 most important pieces of civil rights legislation, Republicans voted for civil rights 80% of the time, Democrats voted against civil rights 60% of the time. Every state in the Confederate States of America was a blue state. - The original name of the Republican party was the anti-slavery party. The KKK was formed by ex-confederate democrat generals for the express purpose of keeping white Republicans out of office in the south Susan 8. Anthony was arrested for voting for Republicans. The first organization in the country to support women's suffrage was the New York City Republican Club. Andrew Jackson: Father of the Democrat Party. Responsible for the Indian Removal Act of 1820 and the Trail of Tears. Woodrow Wilson: Father of Progressiv sip. Vetoed women's suffrage. Imprisoned dissenters and German-Americans in WWI Re-segregated the government and the military. FDR: Father of modem liberalism. Interred Japanese-Americans in WW Democrats started every war in American history until 1990. - Firstbaek- Speaker of the US House of Representatives in 1879

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