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Setting the Record Straight reintroduces this generation to the forgotten heroes and untold stories from our rich African American political history: • The Rev. Richard Allen, the founder of America’s first black denomination • The Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, the first African American to deliver a sermon in Congress • The Rev. Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black U.S. Senator •...

Although it is relatively unreported today, historical documents are unequivocal that the Klan was established by Democrats and that the Klan played a prominent role in the Democratic Party.147 In fact, a thirteen-volume set of congressional investigations from 1872148 conclusively and irrefutably documents that fact.149 Contributing to the evidences was the 1871 appearance before Congress of leading South Carolina Democrat E. W. Seibels who testified that “they [the Ku Klux Klan] belong to
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