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The Racist History of the Democratic Party (posted on ZeroHedge)

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-11-05/racist-history-democratic-party-1863-2020
Brief excerpts from the article:

1913

Woodrow Wilson a Democrat and U.S. President from 1913-1921 was a segregationist who had written a history textbook praising the Confederacy and the Ku Klux Klan. As President during World War I he segregated the military services and some of the civil service most notably at the Post Office and Treasury Departments.

1933

While housing discrimination has always existed the FDR administration made housing discrimination against blacks Federal government policy. His administration accomplished this by constructing redline maps which prevented the government from purchasing mortgages in or near African-American Neighborhoods.

1942

After the attack on Pearl Harbor President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese Americans. Approximately two-thirds of those interned were U.S. citizens.

1957

When in 1957 GOP President Eisenhower sent troops into Little Rock to desegregate schools he was opposed by Democratic governor Orval Faubus who sent Arkansas National Guard to stop African Americans from attending Little Rock Central High School.

1964

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed it had bipartisan support. 61% of Democrats voted for it while 80% of Republicans voted for it.

1975

In 1975 Senator Joe Biden sponsored a successful bill that prohibited the use of federal funds for busing.
In a 1977 congressional hearing, (page 251) Biden had this to say about school busing "‘Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point."