Republican Women’s Network of South Brevard Florida

The Republican party is the party for all people not just a select few. We have a history to be proud of and I think we should remember that it is Republicans that stand strong in their firm belief that “all men are created equal.”

I would like to share with you a few excerpts from the National Black Republican Association’s Resolution on the Moral Issue of Racism.

1. The Republican Party was formed in May 1854, to address the issue of slavery.

2. The Republican Party addressed racism as a moral issue in its first platform in 1856.

3. In 1861, 118 of 118 Republicans in Congress voted for the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery but only 19 of 82 Democrats in Congress voted for this amendment.

4. Republicans single-handedly passed the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution to guarantee the rights of citizenship and voting for all African Americans. Not one Democrat in Congress voted for either of those amendments.

5. In the first 14 years of controlling Congress, Republicans passed 23 civil rights laws - each over the strident and almost unanimous opposition of Democrats. No Democrat voted for either the 1875 Klan bill to punish Klan violence or the 1875 Civil Rights Bill banning segregation and racial discrimination.

6. Democrats regained control of the U. S. House in 1876, no civil rights bills were passed for the next 89 years.

7. When Democrats in 1893 regained control of the House, Senate, and Presidency, they repealed the federal civil rights laws - including the Klan law and the voting right protection laws. Every Jim Crow racial segregation law was passed by a Democrat State legislature.

8. The Ku Klux Klan - a major fomenter of racism and racial violence - was started by Democrats in 1866.

9. The famous 1964 Civil Rights Bill and the 1965 Civil Rights Bill (so often lauded by modern Democrats as being Democrat achievements) were formulated from the proposals of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1957 Civil Rights Commission - stridently opposed by Democrats when introduced in Congress in 1957. Reintroduced under Democrat Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democrat controlled Congress was unable to pass either bill on its own, even though it was in the Democrats’ power to do so. (82 percent of Republicans voted for those measures, compared to only 63 percent of Democrats).

If you would like a complete copy of this entire document please call Vickey Newlin at 777-4678. The cost for each copy is $3.00.

In February we will have a drawing for two books Condi, The Condoleezza Rice Story, by: Antonia Felix and Unfounded Loyalty by: Wayne Perryman. Tickets will be sold for $1.00 per ticket or $3.00 for 5.

Written by by Vickey Newlin, 2nd Vice President, RWNSB 2007 Board