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  • In 1854, Frederick Douglass attends the founding meeting of the Republican Party and campaigns for the Party’s nominees. That same year, Democrats invents the term “Black Republican” to describe the new Republican Party. Although the majority of Republicans were white, the party was founded by abolitionists who supported racial equality.
  • In 1870, Republican Hiram Rhodes Revels from Mississippi becomes the first black elected as a United States senator.
  • In 1871, Black Republican voters, face violence from white Democratic voters on Election Day in Philadelphia, PA, who were mostly Democratic partisans. Known Civil Rights activist, Octavius V. Catto, dies from his injuries sustained after the attack.
  • In 1871, Joseph Rainey of South Carolina was the first black to enter the House of Representatives, the second black person to serve in the United States Congress, and the first African-American to be directly elected to Congress.
  • In 1909, Ida B. Wells, a civil rights advocate and successful journalist, works with White Republicans to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
  • In 1920, Republican Party member James Weldon Johnson becomes leader of the NAACP, the first African-American to hold the position as management. During his reign, he investigated conditions in Haiti, fought for young black authors to get published during the Harlem Renaissance and supported the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill of 1921.
  • In 1925, Republican party member A. Philip Randolph was named the first President of the Black International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a union organized for labor Pullman porters. Randolph also organized two major marches in Washington D.C. in support of civil rights.
  • In 1955, E. Frederic Morrow was selected by President Dwight Eisenhower as Administrative Officer for Special Projects, becoming the first African-American to hold an executive position in the White House. Before taking the position, Morrow worked for the NAACP.
  • In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower requests for Republican William T. Coleman to serve on his Commission on Employment Policy, a department responsible for increasing the government’s minority hiring.
  • Mildred Fay Jefferson, M.D. help began the National Right to Life Committee, in support of Pro-Life. As a Republican, she supported Presidential Democratic nominee Ellen McCormack in 1976.
  • In 2001, Colin Powell becomes the first African-American to hold the position of U.S. Secretary of State, under Republican President George W. Bush.
  • In 2003, Jennifer Carroll becomes the first African-American female Republican elected as Florida’s 18th Lieutenant Governor.
  • In 2005, Republican Condoleezza Rice becomes the first black woman to hold the position of Secretary of State for the United States---the nation's highest cabinet.
  • In 2010, 33 African-Americans ran as Republicans in the United States House of Representatives elections.
  • In 2012, Tea Party member Herman Cain runs for the U.S. Republican Party presidential nomination, but eventually backs out of the race amidst allegations of sexual harassment from former female employees

The History of Blacks & The Republican Party

In 1854, Frederick Douglass attends the founding meeting of the Republican Party and campaigns for the Party’s nominees. That same year, Democrats invents the term “Black Republican” to describe the new Republican Party. Although the majority of Republicans were white, the party was founded by abolitionists who supported racial equality.

Published 08/29/2012

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