Thursday, December 08, 2005

This Day in Republican History 12/08/05

December 8, 1953 Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education; 1924 Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in favor of “separate but equal” Davis also opposed women's suffrage, child-labor laws, anti-lynching legislation and Harry S. Truman's civil rights program, while privately defending the poll tax and questioning whether African-Americans should be allowed to vote.

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