Bollocks. The GOP fought against the Confederacy more than it did for civil rights. The deafening apathy of Republicans to the effort of Grant, Garrison, and Douglass to continue the civil rights struggle once Lee surrendered answers the question as to whether or not white people in the 19th Century cared about mobs killing and looting blacks.
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Date: 10/7/11 18:26 (UTC)