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 [...]
The Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble; consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? Or is it in the temple? It is neither. If the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slaveholding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be [...]
Although the history of black Americans begins in 1619 with the arrival of the first slaves in America, the political history of black Americans actually begins much later, in 1787 – the year in which the American political system was constructed – the year in which the Constitution was written. Today, many critics assert that [...]
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Roger Sherman, a distinguished Founding Father and a signer of the Constitution, was also a Christian theologian! His contributions to America were so great that he is one of those honored with a statue at the Capitol, located in East Central Hall. William Samuel Johnson is also seated at the table in the painting. In [...]
Over the landing of the second-floor steps leading up to the Visitors’ Gallery for the House of Representatives is a huge painting (20’by 30’) of the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787. gov. jonathan trumbull A GUIDE TO IDENTIFYING SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 1. george washington, va 2. benjamin franklin, pa 3. james madison, [...]
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Political science professors believed that this question could be answered by examining a broad spectrum of writings from the Founding Era with the goal of identifying the sources cited in those writings. The researchers assembled 15,000 representative writings from that period and isolated 3,154 direct quotes in those writings. At the end of ten [...]
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One early textbook of great influence was The New England Primer. First introduced in Boston in 1690, it was a schoolbook from which Americans learned to read until 1930; it is what would today be described as a first grade textbook. Not only were many of the Founding Fathers raised on this textbook but they [...]
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As word of God’s Divine protection of Washington spread across the colonies, the Rev. Samuel Davies even referred to the incident in a sermon only a few weeks after the momentous battle. (Davies was a leader in the American revival known as the Great Awakening and was considered the greatest pulpit preacher in America.) Significantly, [...]
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