The Yocum African-American History Association (YAAHA) is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the events which shaped the lives and contributions of African-Americans. YAAHA counteracts the exploitation of revisionism caused by a general lack of public knowledge and has collected and compiled information related to the African-American experience from the era of slavery until modern times.
This documentation includes information from: Congressional records; political party platforms; historic debates; Confederate records; the Library of Congress; the National Archives; The Census Bureau; civil rights records; speeches by early black leaders; court documents; Founding Fathers’ history; and political illustrations that we hope will restore the integrity of African-American history. We must know our civil rights history to counter the Democrats’ revisionism and to understand their racist past.
Here are some truths to counter revisionist history:
- The first legal sanction of slavery in the New World was won by a black man, Anthony Johnson, to keep his slave, John Casor, 1664
- The cause of the Civil War was not about states’ rights but slavery
- Robert B. Elliot’s historic debate as a black man to argue for Civil Rights Bill, U.S. Congress in 1875
- Reconstruction stymied by Democrats started the KKK to suppress black Republican leaders in the South
- Republicans supported the Civil Rights Acts of 1875, 1957, 1960 and 1964; Democrats only supported the 1964 act.
- Racist Democratic President Woodrow Wilson segregated the federal service workers and screened Birth of a Nation at the White House
- Only four Democrats voted for the 13th Amendment, none voted for the 14th and 15th Amendments
- Democratic leaders like Bull Connors made sure that Civil Rights would not be achieved easily in the South.
The Democrats have been allowed to bury their racist past and have opposed practically every major piece of civil rights legislation for a century. They speak publicly in a conciliatory manner while taking actions that are opposite of the rhetoric. In 1911, Democrat Woodrow Wilson stated, “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.” He was elected President in 1913, and immediately segregated the federal service workforce. In 1915 he screened the racist film, Birth of a Nation, in the White House which caused a resurgence of the KKK.
The Democratic Party wants to sweep their past racial injustices under the rug and accuse the Republicans of such injustices. This tactic was described by Joseph Goebbels when he said, “Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” The fact is African-Americans made their most significant political and civil rights progress while affiliated with the Republican Party.