He’s not talking about the Civil Rights Act, he was talking about the civil rights movement which started at least as early as Benjamin Franklin.
The movement for black civil rights preceded that of women.
The Grand Old Party is the party that was formed with the sole purpose of ending slavery. It is the party that delivered Abraham Lincoln and fought for the end of slavery. One-hundred years later, it was the party that cast the votes for the Civil Rights movement and later for the rights of women to vote.
Well, where am I wrong? I don’t understand. He’s talking about the Republican party. That party was formed in 1854, long after Ben Franklin’s day. Roughly 100 years later brings us to the Civil Rights movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s, climaxing in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.