Democrats, slavery, and the KKK

1. David Brock shows how to subvert Democracy. https://www.scribd.com/document/337535680/Full-David-Brock-Confidential-Memo-On-Fighting-Trump#from_embed

Websites

1. A short history of slavery and racism. Republican party was created primarily to oppose Democrats who fought the Civil War to support slavery.
   1. The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, passed in 1865 with 100% Republican support but only 23% Democrat support in congress.
   2. The 14th Amendment, giving full citizenship to freed slaves, passed in 1868 with 94% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress.
   3. The 15th Amendment, giving freed slaves the right to vote, passed in 1870 with 100% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress.
   4. The Ku Klux Klan was originally and primarily an arm of the Southern Democratic Party. Its mission was to terrorize freed slaves and "ni**er-loving" (their words) Republicans who sympathized with them.
   5. The historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 was supported by a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats in both houses of Congress. In the House, 80 percent of the Republicans and 63 percent of the Democrats voted in favor. In the Senate, 82 percent of the Republicans and 69 percent of the Democrats voted for it. http://russp.us/racism.htm
2. Did Democrats support slavery? http://www.thethirdlittlepig.com/Democrats4Slavery.html
   1. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (Democrat-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became the Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee!
3. 2008 Wall Street Journal. "The Democrats' Missing History". https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121856786326834083
4. Wikipedia. Retrieved Oct 2, 2017.
   1. In the 19th century, Southern Democrats comprised whites in the South who believed in Jeffersonian democracy. In the 1850s they defended slavery in the United States, and promoted its expansion into the West against northern Free Soil opposition. The United States presidential election of 1860 formalized the split, and brought war. After Reconstruction ended in the late 1870s they controlled all the Southern states and disenfranchised blacks (who were Republicans). The “Solid South” gave nearly all its electoral votes to Democrats in presidential elections. Republicans seldom were elected to office outside some Appalachian mountain districts and
      a few heavily German-American counties of Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats
   2. After the election of Abraham Lincoln, Southern Democrats led the charge to secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America. The Congress was dominated by Republicans...
5. Arguments from the defenders of slavery. http://www.ushistory.org/us/27f.asp

Books

1. "Massa's back, but now he's black? The Spirit of Slavery has Returned to America". https://smile.amazon.com/Massas-Back-but-Now-Black-ebook/dp/B00AB4KR1W/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1506943260&sr=8-23&keywords=Democrat+slavery