Sunday, March 12, 2006

This Day in Republican History 3/11/06

March 11, 1874 Death of Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA), author of bill that would become Civil Rights Act of 1875; on his deathbed, said “You must take care of the civil rights bill, my bill. Don’t let it fail” During Reconstruction, Sumner supported the policies of the Radical Republicans and introduced the bill that eventually became (after his death) the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which outlawed racial discrimination in public places -- until a Democratic Supreme Court overturned the law in 1883.

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