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'''Black Republicans''' are represented by the [[National Black Republican Association]]. Black Republicans support the [[Republican party]] for many reasons, including a belief that the Republican party supports good values, had a positive role in ending [[slavery]] and maintains positive involvement in the [[civil rights movement]].  

'''Black Republicans''' comprise about 1% of GOP voters, but include the Republican National Chairman [[Michael Steele]], elected in 2009. Black Republicans support the [[Republican party]] for many reasons, including a belief that the Republican party supports conservative values, is pro-business, and had a positive role in ending [[slavery]] in the 1860s and supporting the [[civil rights movement]] of the 1960s.  

==Black Republicans==

==Contemporary==

*[[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] <ref name="a">http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.BlackGOP&x=4961358</ref>

*[[Colin Powell]]

*[[Frederick Douglass]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[Condoleezza Rice]]

*[[Mary McLeod Bethune]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[Thomas Sowell]]

*[[Colin Powell]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[Clarence Thomas]]

*[[Harriet Tubman]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[Michael S. Steele]]

*[[Sojourner Truth]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[George Washington Carver]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[Thomas Sowell]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[Clarence Thomas]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[Michael S. Steele]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[Jackie Robinson]]<ref name="a"/>

 

*[[Sammy Davis Jr.]]<ref name="a"/>

==Black Republicans of the past==

*[[Booker T. Washington]]<ref name="a"/>

*[[Frederick Douglass]]

*Alphonso Jackson<ref name="a"/>

*[[Mary McLeod Bethune]]

*Rod Paige<ref name="a"/>

*[[Harriet Tubman]]

*Michael L. Williams<ref name="a"/>

*[[Sojourner Truth]]

*Alveda C. King<ref name="a"/>

*[[George Washington Carver]]

*[[Jackie Robinson]]

*[[Sammy Davis Jr.]]

*[[Booker T. Washington]]

*Alphonso Jackson

*Rod Paige

*Edward William Brooke, III<ref name="a"/>

*Michael L. Williams

*William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.<ref name="a"/>

*Alveda C. King

*Joe Celestin<ref name="a"/>

*Edward William Brooke, III

*Herman Cain<ref name="a"/>

*William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.

*A. Philip Randolph<ref name="a"/>

*Joe Celestin

*Hiram Rhodes Revels<ref name="a"/>

*Herman Cain

*Blanche Bruce<ref name="a"/>

*A. Philip Randolph

*Ida B. Wells<ref name="a"/>

*Hiram Rhodes Revels

*Mary Terrell<ref name="a"/>

*Blanche Bruce

*Carter G. Woodson<ref name="a"/>

*Ida B. Wells

*Mary Terrell

*Carter G. Woodson

*Keith Butler

*Keith Butler