1. Which Party was founded as the Anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?
(FYI: One of that Party's original goals was "to prohibit...those twin relics of barbarism - Polygamy, and Slavery. "
2. On January 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the "Emancipation Proclamation " that freed the slaves: An event blacks celebrate as “Juneteenth ” on June 19th despite the fact that Delaware - Joe Biden's home state - practiced slavery for six more months.
3. Which political party was responsible for passing the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution granting blacks Freedom, Citizenship, and the Right to Vote, respectively?
4. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 protected blacks from the “Black Codes ”, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 prohibited racial discrimination in public accommodations. These acts were passed by which party?
5. Most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were either members or supporters of which political party?
6. Which is the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP , or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
7. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the 1957 Civil Rights Act,
sent U.S. troops to desegregate Arkansas' schools ,
established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and
appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that ended school segregation.
8. Which political Party, by the greatest percentage of members in Congress , passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s?
9. In 1901 Booker T. Washington became the first black person to dine personally with the President at the White House
10. In 1969 President Richard M. Nixon used the Philadelphia Plan , written by black American Art Fletcher, to define goals and timetables for racially integrating construction workers at a federal construction site: This was the first example of Affirmative Action . Nixon and Fletcher were members of which political party?
11. President George W. Bush, who appointed more blacks to high-level positions than any president in history , and spent a record amount of money on education, job training and health care to help black Americans prosper, was a member of which political party?
12. Which Party fought to keep blacks enslaved and was the Party of a radical terrorist group led by former Confederate General Nathaniel Bedford Forrest ?
13. From 1870 to 1930, which party used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks civil rights?
14. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman, who each rejected anti-lynching laws
(FYI: The first Anti-Lynching Bill was introduced in 1918 by Republican congressman Leonidas Dyer
15. President Lyndon Johnson, a Texas native, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [“N” word]
(BTW: Read how LBJ wanted to give blacks "just enough to quiet them down ".
16. John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, and as President both opposed Dr. King’s 1963 March on Washington and had Dr. King investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist :
17. West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd was a member of a radical terrorist group, former South Carolina Governor Ernest “Fritz” Hollings once hoisted the Confederate flag over the State Capital, and Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy called black judicial nominees “Neanderthals ” while blocking their appointments.
18. In 1976, during the Nation's bicentennial, President Gerald R. Ford urged Americans to
“seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans
19. President Bill Clinton refused to send troops to Rwanda in 1994 to prevent the genocide of 800,000 blacks , vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies stop discriminating against blacks and develop an Affirmative Action Plan.
20. Which Party is against school choice opportunity scholarships that would help poor blacks get out of failing schools?
(FYI: During President Barack Obama's administration they repeatedly proposed removed funding for Washington, D.C.'s school voucher "Opportunity Scholarship Program ": A program which gave 95% of its money to black and Hispanic students .
21. Which party takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?
22. President Donald J. Trump reduced the poverty rate among blacks to the lowest in history, allocated more money to historically black colleges and universities than any other president, and enabled the highest rate of small business startups owned by black women
23. In 1869 Mississippi elected the first black American to serve in the US Senate the first black Americans to the US House of Representatives
(FYI: When the Reconstruction ended in 1877 and US Federal troops left South Carolina Robert B. Elliot was forced out of office.
24. Which political party refused to accept the results of the 1876 Presidential Election
(FYI: The 'Bargain of 1877
25. Woodrow Wilson, US President from 1913 to 1921, refused to admit blacks while president of Princeton University, fired blacks from Federal Government jobs as US President, supported the "Invisible Empire of the South", and supported the Science of Eugenics (which promoted mental, physical, and racial purity).
(FYI: The first motion picture President Wilson viewed in the White House was D. W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation ", which the NAACP called "3 miles of filth "
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