Here's a highly educational search: "civil rights act of 1883." Let's whet your appetite: <A HREF="http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/civil_rights.html" target="_blank">http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/civil_rights.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/brown_v_board/segregation.htm" target="_blank">http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/brown_v_board/segregation.htm</A> (Now why would any black reading this want to be one that ever voted for a Democrat? Sort of like Jewish Youth for Hitler, eh?)