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Lincoln was a Republican who was not so much for blacks as he was for keeping the union together.

I fail to see what FDR or JFK did for black people.

I will give credit to LBJ however.

And, by liberals helping blacks I'm not sure how we define that. In what way? Increasing welfare? Promoting reverse racism through Affirmative Action policies, thereby INCREASING resentment and racism from whites? I'm not sure the blacks have been served well by either party to be quite frank.

Lincoln was in fact a republican and was not pro black. He was though an abolitionist. It was under his watch that slavery was abolished. As a result the vast majority of blacks became republican. You'll see that the majority of black congressman at the time were republican

Hiram Rhodes Revels - republican
Joseph Rainey - republican
Blanche K. Bruce - republican
Richard H. Cain - republican
Henry P. Cheatham - republican
Robert C. DeLarge - republican
Thomas E. Miller - republican
George H. White - republican
the list is huge .. . Origins of the CBC > 19th Century Black Congressman Biographies

etc.

The Compromise of 1877 was essentially the start of the republican abandonment of the blacks in the south. "Under the compromise, Democrats conceded the election to Hayes and promised to acknowledge the political rights of blacks; Republicans agreed to no longer intervene in southern affairs and promised to appropriate a portion of federal monies toward southern projects" African Americans in the United States Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

FDR, mainly thru his wife Eleanor, maintained blacks in his administration thru the formation of the "black cabinent" Black Cabinet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . This allowed blacks to be represented in the federal government.


JFK - Civil Rights Act of 1964 (although he died 1963 it was started during his administration), his promise to end racial discrimination, executive order 11063 ending housing discrimination (John F. Kennedy )