don t want you to know anything about their past. for example, 112 democratic lawmakers voted against the 1964 civil rights act, which outlawed racism against minorities, which by the minorities, which, by the way, lyndon johnson needed g the republican party. al gore s father, prominent democratic, well, as a senator, he voted against the civil rights act. eme 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. in 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 stood in the doorway of a birmingham school to physically block racial integration. bill clinton called jay william
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1121 cross street in little rock, and the new school day is dawning. reporter: a year after the montgomery bus boycott, little rock became the stage for the next drama of the movement when local naacp leaders hand-picked nine black students and pressured the school board to enroll them at all white central high school. they were challenging the city to comply with the supreme court s 1954 decision in brown vs. board of education where the court ruled that all public schools must be integrated. ernest green, age 16, 12th grade. when they said, are you interested in transferring to central, i said, hey, why not? my attitude was that change was coming, i want to be a part of it. i m ready to change the face of the south. reporter: the story took an unexpected turn when the
who are making those comments on facebook and twitter is that they are being they have ascended into the ranks of government. so even judges, right, you ve had judges who have sat before the committee and been asked, well, what do you feel about brown vs. board of ed, can you say right now that was a supreme court and you have these people saying i m not i m not so sure and well, he praised robert e. lee yesterday. and i think that is dangerous because particularly these positions are for life, these judge ships are going to sort of shape american policy, civil rights, environmental law,
evidence that this president is a racist. and just because you say it every time you re on cnn doesn t make it true, and all he has done is make life better for minorities. and by the way, both blacks and hispanics are responding to their improved lives with vastly higher approval numbers for this president. so it s not just my opinion. it s the opinion of my community, hispanics and also the opinion of african-americans where he s surging in support. it s a bit of hyperbole, but go on. it s not hyperbole. look at the naacp survey. after the civil rights act and voting rights act you had a period of time in brown vs. board of education where a number of democrats including thurman left the party began to