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1865 Abolished Slavery
1868 passed the 14th Amendment after one attempt blocked by Democrats
1955 Eisenhower makes E Fredrick Murrow first African-American to hold a cabinet level position
1957 Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act
1957 enforced the desegregation of Little Rock, Arkansas under armed escort by presidential order.
1964 passed the Civil Rights Act over a democrat filibuster
1965 passed the Voting Rights Act, again over democratic opposition
1987 Reagan appoints the first black National Security Adviser
1989 Bush Sr. appoints the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
2000 Bush Jr. appoint the first black Secretary of State
If abolition, broken color barriers, voting rights and civil rights are enough to earn the Black vote, then maybe the Republicans should stop trying! Imagine what America might look like today if the Democrats had been successful in 1865, 1868, 1964, and 1965.
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