Liberals Aren’t Liking This Newly-Discovered Photo Of The 1924 Democratic Convention…

[theDoctorisIn]

Alveda King does not represent all of MLK's family.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Alveda King does not represent all of MLK's family.

Alveda King was a Southern Democrat until 1990. Now a Republican. Radical anti-abortionist. See how that works?

 

[Carter Malone]

Wonder why?

-Geaux
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The picture was taken during the 1924 Democratic Convention.

It was also known as “Klanbake.”

In Madison Square Garden, New York City, from June 24 to July 9, a dispute during came up revolving around an attempt by non-Klan delegates, led by Forney Johnston of Alabama, to condemn the organization for its violence in the Democratic Party’s platform.



Liberals Aren’t Liking This Newly-Discovered Photo Of The 1924 Democratic Convention…

With the Klan operating primarily within the Republican party...

Hooded Americanism

Hell, in Indiana the GOP Governor was KKK, along with most of the GOP General Assembly.


Indiana KKK:

"Staunchly anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, antisemitic, and of course prejudiced against African Americans, the new Klan spread into Indiana in the 1920s under the Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson. The second KKK was almost exclusively Republican in Midwestern states like Indiana as well as northern and western states like Maine and Colorado, although the KKK remained exclusively Democratic in the South. Under Stephenson's leadership, the Klan flourished in Indiana and took over both the Governor's Office and much Republican Party in the General Assembly. With over two-hundred and fifty thousand white males (approximately forty-percent of Indiana's population) paying their Klan dues in Indiana, Stephenson amassed a fortune estimated from two to five million dollars.

In the 1924 Republican primary elections in Indiana, almost all candidates nominated for statewide office were Klansmen. One African American newspaper stated "the Ku Klux Klan has captured boot and breeches, the Republican party in Indiana and have [sic] turned what has been historically an organization of constitutional freedom into an agency for the promotion of religious and racial hate.Nobody now denies the Ku Klux Klan is the dominating power in Indiana Republican politics. In fact, the Republican party exists in Indiana today only in name. Its place has been usurped by the Klan purposes and leadership and issues." Most blacks in Indiana in 1924 casted their first ever ballot for the Democratic Party, which had passed a resolution denouncing the KKK in its platform without mentioning the Klan by name. Blacks in other areas of the United States, in contrast, generally remained Republican until the following decade. Despite the influx of blacks into the Democratic party, Klansmen won most of the Indiana legislature and most statewide offices in the November 1924 general elections. However, once in office, the Klan-controlled legislature passed little to no anti-black, anti-Jewish or anti-Catholic legislation."

Indiana Republican Party - Wikipedia

The Political Realignment of Black Voters in Indianapolis, 1924 | Giffin | Indiana Magazine of History

KKK controlled the Colorado GOP as well -- including the Governor:

"After the general election of 1924, the republican governor, Clarence Morley, was a Klansman. Benjamin Stapleton, the mayor of Denver, consulted the Klan when making appointments. U.S. Senator Rice Means was elected with open Klan support. The state House of Representatives had a Klan majority. Klansmen marched and burned crosses in small towns throughout the state, from Great Plains through the mountains to the Western Slope. A city council, or the mayor's office, or the police and sheriff's departments, or the county government -- many fell under the Klan's control. "

Welcome to Kolorado, Klan Kountry

Thanks for posting this. Instead of trying to hide their KKK history,my he right would be better served if they worked to eradicate from their party today.

I remember when Republicans were the party of small government and now they're the opposite. I remember when they were known for personal responsibility.

Now all we hear from them is that they are entitled to a free ride because they're white.


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[Syriusly]

Has anything changed since then? Oh, yes, they stopped wearing those white sheets.

Sure- African Americans went from being Republicans to Democrats.

If that parade were happening today it would be all Trump supporters.

 

[Syriusly]

Look at the list of Religious leaders who spoke at the Democratic convention.....

Each of the convention's 23 sessions was opened with an invocation by a different nationally prominent clergyman. The choices represented the party's coalition at the time: there were five Episcopalian ministers; three Presbyterians; three Lutherans; two Roman Catholics; two Baptists; two Methodists; one each from the Congregationalists, Disciples of Christ, Unitarians, and Christian Scientists; and two Jewish rabbis.

 

[Syriusly]

From the 1924 Republican National Convention

It also made history by being the first GOP convention to give women equal representation. The Republican National Committee approved a rule providing for a national committee-man and a national committee-woman from each state.[2] More controversy ensued over whether to condemn the Ku Klux Klan with the result ultimately being to say nothing either way.

 

[Syriusly]

Remember Barry Goldwater?

The GOP Presidential nominee who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

[Ku Klux Klan members supporting Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention, San Francisco, California, as an African American man pushes signs back] / [WKL].

 

[Syriusly]

Study: The Ku Klux Klan Played a Serious Role In Garnering White Southern Support for Republican Party - Atlanta Black Star

The Klan’s push for white voters to focus on voting against policies that would help Blacks encouraged many of the voters to toss their political affiliations aside and gravitate towards politicians who were opposed to desegregation and anything else that would treat Black people as equals.

The effect the Klan had on political results was made evident as former Democratic voters started giving their support to Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 and third-party candidate Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1968 after he took a firm stance against desegregation.

After analyzing county voting records in 10 Southern states where the KKK was actively recruiting members in the 1960s, the study’s authors confirmed the white supremacy group’s impact on voting behaviors.

“The Klan played an active role in encouraging white southerners to prioritize white supremacy over party loyalty,” the authors wrote.

Counties with an active Klan chapter were found to be much more likely to back Goldwater and Wallace.

Despite the fact that chapters of the white supremacy group were often formed in counties with high home ownership rates and a high percentage of Black residents, counties that were considered less prosperous and subjected white people to economic competition with Blacks housed the most active KKK participants.

“Given the barriers to voting still in place in the South for blacks in 1964, prior to the passage of the Voting Rights Act, this finding reflects high support among white voters in counties where the perceived threat posed by African-Americans to white interest was greatest,” the authors continued.

By the time the 1970s rolled around, most white voters in the South felt loyal to the Republican Party because they were “more in line with the interest of those opposed to civil rights than was the Democratic Party.”

 

[Syriusly]

Republicans aren't liking this 'newly discovered quote by Martin Luther King Jr.'

From 1964 (not 1924)
The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The “best man” at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.


....... On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

 

[Syriusly]

For all those people who state the KKK are Republicans now I have to ask who did the Klan thrive under ?

Southern conservatives

Woodrow Wilson is a southern conservative?

From 1915 to 1925 the klan thrived under southern conservatives and Midwestern factory workers afraid to lose their jobs to foreigners and negroes

They thrived under Democrats all but one Politician switched to Republican the rest of the Klan supporters stayed lifelong Democrats that's a fact

Wrong again

During the second generation of the Klan, Republican states Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania were klan strongholds as the klan churned up hatred of immigrants and negroes

TODAYS klan is exclusively Republican....however it has NEVER been liberal

And it has always been Christian Conservative.

 

[Syriusly]

That was the KKK who endorsed Trump

Trump's father was a klan member

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. The Democrats want to bring slavery back by putting all minorities on food stamps and welfare and keeping them there.

Fascinating- since 95% of African American voters are Democrats- why exactly do you think that African Americans want to bring back slavery in the United States?

 

[rightwinger]

That was the KKK who endorsed Trump

Trump's father was a klan member

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. The Democrats want to bring slavery back by putting all minorities on food stamps and welfare and keeping them there.

Helping people who need help is not slavery

Republicans want to let them die

 

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

That was the KKK who endorsed Trump

Trump's father was a klan member

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. The Democrats want to bring slavery back by putting all minorities on food stamps and welfare and keeping them there.

Helping people who need help is not slavery

Republicans want to let them die

Wrong:

 

[rightwinger]

That was the KKK who endorsed Trump

Trump's father was a klan member

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. The Democrats want to bring slavery back by putting all minorities on food stamps and welfare and keeping them there.

Helping people who need help is not slavery

Republicans want to let them die

Wrong:

Just think if Ray Charles were affected today. He would have had the best doctors available to him

 

[Ame®icano]

Wow, look at all those white conservatives. Glad they became Republicans.

Name five who did so.

I'll help you with first one, you fill the blanks. Can you?

1. Strom Thurmond
2.
3.
4.
5.

They became Republicans in the ballot box starting in 1964.

Then you sure can provide four more names of those Democrats who became Republicans in the ballot box starting in 1964. Let's see them.

 

[Ame®icano]

I love revisionist history

First off.... The klan is and always was a Conservative organization. Liberals are not welcome

Secondly.... the second generation klan that emerged in the early 1900 s was comprised of both Democrats in the south and Republicans in the Midwest.

Thirdly..... TODAYS klan is staunchly Republican and Conservative
.

First off, the klan was started by Democrats.

Second, they were revived in early 1900s again by Democrats (Wilson).

Third, you sure have a proof that Republicans support the klan, do ya?

 

[Ame®icano]

For all those people who state the KKK are Republicans now I have to ask who did the Klan thrive under ?

Southern conservatives

Democrats.

 

[Ame®icano]

I love revisionist history

First off.... The klan is and always was a Conservative organization. Liberals are not welcome

Secondly.... the second generation klan that emerged in the early 1900 s was comprised of both Democrats in the south and Republicans in the Midwest.

Thirdly..... TODAYS klan is staunchly Republican and Conservative




.

"Thirdly..... TODAYS klan is staunchly Republican and Conservative..."

Only if you're a fucking lunatic

There is little difference between the klans platform and republicans

How about you put two actual platforms next to each other and we compare them. That means, posting link to some website who makes it look that they're similar doesn't count. Actual platforms.

Also, do you know the difference between Democrat and Nazi party platforms?

 

[Ame®icano]

For all those people who state the KKK are Republicans now I have to ask who did the Klan thrive under ?

Southern Conservatives. Party affiliation irrelevant.

Irrelevant because they were all Democrats?

 

[jon_berzerk]

Has anything changed since then? Oh, yes, they stopped wearing those white sheets.

not a thing