Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history?

The Democrats want you to forget that Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican Party president, or that it was the southern Democrats who were saying “slow down” to the Civil Rights legislation, or even that it was Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

But the Civil rights act of 1964 was filibustered by Democrats. The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the “Southern Bloc” of southern Senators led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage. Said Russell:

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That filibuster lasted until the morning of June 10, 1964, when former KKK member,Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier in order to block the legislation. Until then, the measure had occupied the Senate for 57 working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, the bill’s manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate and end the filibuster. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin. Once the filibuster ended, the bill passed with a final tally of 71 to 29. Only 7 of the 94 only one of the 21 Southern Democrats in the senate voted for the bill.

My colleague Onan Coca presented this much watch gem from Carol Swain, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, about the inconvenient history of the Democratic Party. The below was originally posted at Constitution.com.

The brilliant Vanderbilt professor, Carol Swain, was the most recent host for Prager University’s educational videos. The subject she took on was the inconvenient history of the Democrat party and its uncomfortable relationship with racism and racially motivated politics. While the Democrats like to pretend that they’ve long been the defenders of ethnic and religious minorities, this is simply a fairy tale that they’ve concocted in recent years. The truth is that the Republican Party has always been the party to put minority rights before majority interests. Always. Whether on slavery, civil rights, religious freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of association, etc. The GOP has always been the true home for defenders of minority protections. But you don’t have to take my word for it, Dr. Swain runs through a concise and compelling history of American politics to prove that the Democrats are hypocrites and the GOP are the true defenders of minority rights.