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The Parties Switched Story Meets the Record and What the Evidence ShowsThe claim that Democrats and Republicans traded places on race around 1964 deserves a fair answer from the record, not a slogan.The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Republican Votes That Broke the FilibusterThe 1964 law passed because Republican senators supplied the votes to end a Southern filibuster, and the facts are plainer than the slogans.Little Rock in 1957 and the Republican President Who Sent in the 101st AirborneA Republican president enforced a federal court order against a Democratic governor's defiance, and that story belongs in the party's civil rights record.Why Black Voters Left the Party of Lincoln for the New Deal, in QuestionsFor seventy years Black Americans were loyal Republicans. Plain answers to the questions people ask about why that changed in the 1930s.Hayes, Tilden and the Compromise of 1877 That Ended ReconstructionThe closest finish of the 1800s was settled by a commission, a bargain and a troop withdrawal, and it shows why rules set beforehand beat rules made up after.Grant, the Enforcement Acts and the Federal Government's War on the First KlanThe best conservative case for federal power is that it once crushed organized terror against ordinary citizens. The argument, the record and the retreat.A timeline of the Black Republicans who sat in Congress after the Civil WarEvery Black member of Congress from 1870 to 1901 was a Republican, and the dates show how fast they gained power and how long the loss lasted.