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Directory of Representatives - House.gov

Also referred to as a congressman or congresswoman, each representative is elected to a two-year term serving the people of a specific congressional ...

Performance for Southern Democratic | FotoFocus Cincinnati

Poet Harris Wheeler, Lexington, KY, and Musician James Meade, Cincinnati, OH, respond to exhibition themes from Southern Democratic through a performance.

African Americans and the Democratic Party - UMBC

Having aligned themselves with the Republican Party since the days of. Abraham Lincoln, what made African Americans switch to the Democrats during.

The Southern Paradox: The Democratic Party Below ... - The Nation

Books in Review. Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction. By David A. Bateman, Ira Katznelson, and John S. Lapinski.

The New Deal Realignment - ICPSR - University of Michigan

The New Deal Democratic coalition that put Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House and the Democratic Party in control of Congress combined support from the ...

Southern Lehigh Democrats - Home Page

Welcome to the Southern Lehigh Democratic Committee! I'd like to personally welcome you to Southern Lehigh Dems and hope that you will join us whenever you can.

Democratic Party - Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

Tracing their roots to Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans, the Democrats did not fully coalesce as a party until Andrew Jackson's presidency.

Performance for Southern Democratic: Harris Wheeler and James ...

Poet Harris Wheeler, Lexington, KY, accompanied by Musicians James Meade and Gabriel Napoli respond to exhibition themes from Southern Democratic through a ...

Off Site: Southern Democratic — Institute 193

In October 1976, William Eggleston left his home in Memphis, Tennessee and drove to Plains, Georgia on assignment for Rolling Stone Magazine, tasked with ...

Of Byrd[s] and Bumpers: - Using Democratic Senators to Analyze - jstor

So, did blacks pull Southern Demo- crats to the left, or were the Democrats pushed by Republicans? Given the transformation of Southern politics since the 1960s ...

A Brief History of Civil Rights in the United States: Jim Crow Era

A period from about 1865 to 1877 where federal laws offered observable protection of civil rights for former slaves and free blacks.

Factionalism in the Democratic Party 1936-1964

This factional strife largely culminated with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of. 1965, which helped to define the liberal faction as the ...

Grant, Reconstruction and the KKK | American Experience - PBS

In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats ... political power of Southern blacks and Republicans. Racist activity ...

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)

In April 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) was founded. Open to all without regard to race, it was a parallel political party designed..

Our Members | Who We Are - House Democrats

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Democratic Party | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

In 1964, even as Republicans won their first modern gubernatorial election, only 18 percent of Oklahoma voters registered as Republicans. Democrats saw their ...

The Democratic Party - Essential Civil War Curriculum

Author: Al Ronzoni. Title: The Democratic Party. The Wilmot Proviso, first proposed by Democratic congressman David Wilmot in 1846, prohibited slavery in ...

Why Did the Democratic South Become Republican? | 5 Minute Video

The south used to vote Democrat. Now it votes Republican. Why the switch? Was it, as some people say, because the GOP decided to appeal to ...

Strom Thurmond: A Featured Biography - Senate.gov

James Strom Thurmond served as a city and county attorney before being elected to the South Carolina state senate in 1932.

The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968

In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "Dixiecrats," and chose Strom Thurmond as ...