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The passage of the 14th Amendment, much like the 13th Amendment, was also along partisan lines. In the House, it passed 138 to 36. Of the 134 Republicans in the House, 128 (96%) voted to provide civil rights to former slaves; of the 36 Democrats, none (0%) voted to give civil rights to African Americans; and of the 11 third-party representatives, 10 (91%) voted in favor of racial civil rights.43 In the Senate, the vote was 33 to 11. Of the 32 Republican Senators, 30 (94%) voted for the measure; of the 6 Democrats, none (0%) voted for civil rights; and of the 6 others, 3 (50%) voted for racial civil rights.44 As the civil rights secured on the federal level began to move forward across the nation, Democrats worked hard at the State level to regain control of the State legislatures and halt the progress made by blacks and Republicans. To support this effort, a Democrat constituency group was formed to fight both blacks and Republicans. The name of this group? The Ku Klux Klan.45 In fact, extensive hearings held by the U. S. Congress in 1868 document the role of the KKK in working with southern Democrats to halt voting by blacks. (As an aside, during those congressional hearings, witness Robert Flournoy testified to a fact unknown by many today: "I am a considerable sort of a Negro man and talk with the Negroes wherever I go. I have never met in all my intercourse with the Negroes of Mississippi but one single Negro who professed to be a Democrat, and that was in the town of Oxford. He was a waiter in a hotel, and he informed me that he was a Democrat. I tried to convert him and failed, and left him a Democrat.")46 In response to the efforts of the KKK and of Democrats in the Southern States, the 15th Amendment - the final of the three post-Civil War civil rights amendments - was passed in 1870 to guarantee to African-American males the right to vote (the first ever expansion in federal voting rights). And just like the two previous civil rights Amendments, the 15th also passed along partisan lines.47 >That's wrong. Bedford Forrest was not among the 6 men who founded the >klan. It was already established before he became aware of it. The >political party and masonic affliation of the founding members is >unknown. The only known affliation is that they were former >Confederate soldiers. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266833 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
