The North Carolina constitution similarly prohibited from office those who denied “the truth of the Protestant religion” or who held “religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State.” However, as already noted, this was not a rejection of Roman Catholics in general, just of those who embraced doctrines “subversive of a free [...]
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Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower with Frederic Morrow the first African American to serve on the executive staff of the white house. After his re election, Eisenhower continued his civil rights efforts, but both the House and Senate were in Democratic control. In 1957, he proposed a bold civil rights bill to increase black voting [...]
So great were the gains of blacks through the Republican Party those Democrats begun to fight back not only as they had in Georgia through the manipulation of laws and election results, but also literally as in Louisiana. Recall that black Americans had made huge gains in Louisiana with the election of 127 black legislators [...]
While Republicans were working to end slavery and secure civil rights, the new nation of southern Democrats was determined to head in an opposite direction. In fact, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens delivered an 1861 speech entitled: “African Slavery: The Corner Stone of the Southern Confederacy.” In that speech, Stephens first correctly acknowledged that the [...]