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| | '''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''' 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. |
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| − | ==Contemporary== | + | ==In order of birthdate== |
| − | *[[Thomas Sowell]] (born 1930)
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| − | *[[Don King]] (born 1931)
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| − | *[[Colin Powell]] (born 1937)
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| − | *[[Clarence Thomas]] (born 1948)
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| − | *[[J. Kenneth Blackwell]] (born 1948)
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| − | *[[Lynn Swann]] (born 1952)
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| − | *[[Condoleezza Rice]] (born 1954)
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| − | *[[J.C. Watts Jr]] (born 1957)
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| − | *[[Michael S. Steele]] (born 1958)
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| | *[[Sojourner Truth]] (c. 1797 – 1883) | | *[[Sojourner Truth]] (c. 1797 – 1883) |
| | *[[Frederick Douglass]] (c. 1818 – 1895) | | *[[Frederick Douglass]] (c. 1818 – 1895) |
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| | *[[Edward Brooke|Edward William Brooke, III]] (born 1919) | | *[[Edward Brooke|Edward William Brooke, III]] (born 1919) |
| | *[[Sammy Davis Jr.]] (1925 – 1990) | | *[[Sammy Davis Jr.]] (1925 – 1990) |
| | + | *[[Thomas Sowell]] (born 1930) |
| | + | *[[Don King]] (born 1931) |
| | *[[Rod Paige]] (born 1933) | | *[[Rod Paige]] (born 1933) |
| | + | *[[Colin Powell]] (born 1937) |
| | *[[Alphonso Jackson]] (born 1945) | | *[[Alphonso Jackson]] (born 1945) |
| | + | *[[Clarence Thomas]] (born 1948) |
| | + | *[[J. Kenneth Blackwell]] (born 1948) |
| | + | *[[Lynn Swann]] (born 1952) |
| | + | *[[Condoleezza Rice]] (born 1954) |
| | + | *[[J.C. Watts Jr]] (born 1957) |
| | + | *[[Michael S. Steele]] (born 1958) |
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| | *[[Michael L. Williams]] | | *[[Michael L. Williams]] |