Civil rights: A century-long fight with Democrats
Bill Federer recounts history of overcoming 'progressive' prejudice
Published: 07/27/2018 at 8:33 PM
In 1857, the Supreme Court, with seven of the nine Justices being Democrat, decided that Dred Scott was not a citizen, but property.
Chief Justice Roger Taney, appointed by Democrat President Andrew Jackson, referenced in his decision that slaves were “so far inferior … that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for their own benefit.â€
After the Civil War, Republicans pushed through the 13th Amendment, adopted Dec. 6, 1865, officially abolishing slavery in America. Once Southern Democrats were forced to free their slaves, they attempted to effectively re-enslave them by passing Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws which required former slaves to be “apprenticed†to “employers†and punished those who left.
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