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I'm black. I know what blacks did. I know when they began leaving the republican party and know that many stayed republicans until 1964. When Rutherford Hayes ended reconstruction that was the start. 4 republicans judges voted in favor of separate but equal out of the 7 votes in the Plessy decision. Jim Crow was not just in the south. Republicans were complicit in everything that happened.False. Blacks didn't vote Republican until 1964. The switch from Republican to Democrat started back in the late 1920s and into the 1930s. Probably ties in with the Great Migration of blacks from the South to the North.
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The “Fulfillment of White’s Prophecy” | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
In his last speech on the House Floor, in 1901, George Henry White of North Carolina—the final Black lawmaker elected in the nineteenth century—had predicted the return of Black Members to Congress. Oscar De Priest arrived on Capitol Hill 28 years later. Six months before his election, the...history.house.gov
You try and make it out that it was the Republicans who instituted Jim Crow on black folk. Who were these influential REPUBLICANS who created, voted and ran Jim Crow laws in the South?