Today In History (March 20 1854)

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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1854: The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. It would be instrumental in turning America from a White republic into a multiracial mass democracy, with major moves in that direction being the illegally adopted 14th and 15th pretended amendments to the US Constitution, which were imposed immediately after the Civil War. Though responsible opponents of slavery had long proposed sending the freed Blacks to Africa to enjoy true self-determination in their own nation, the dominant Republicans chose to set them loose as “equals”