The Republican Party was the party of emancipation. It has always been the party that stood for the freedom, for the freeing of slaves, and for civil rights. If you go back to the Civil Rights acts, and it's not just a 64 act, there were actually five other civil rights acts before 1964 massively, overwhelmingly supported by the Republican party. It was Democrats that were holding up those. When the 64 act was going and before it went into law, the filibuster in the United States Senate was led by Democrat senators of the United States Senate. (35:31–35:45)
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Asserts that the Republican Party overwhelmingly supported six civil rights acts before 1964.
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