19640 civil rights act which outlawed racism against minorities, which by the way, lyndon johnson needed the republican party. al gore's father, prominent democratic, well, as a senator, he voted against the civil rights act. one year later, 70 democrats voted against the 1965 voting rights act which prevented racism at the ballot box. and the democratic party also largely opposed racial integration in schools. 1959, 99 democratic lawmakers signed off what was known as the southern manifesto which was drafted to counter the historic brown vs. board of education supreme court decision. and as governor, oh, democrat george wallace, he steefd in the doorway of a birmingham school to physically block incident rational. called jay william full bright some times his great mentor fullbright vigorously opposed all immigration