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Revision as of 10:47, February 1, 2009
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.
Contemporary
- Colin Powell
- Condoleezza Rice
- Thomas Sowell
- Clarence Thomas
- Michael S. Steele
- J. Kenneth Blackwell
- J.C. Watts Jr
- Don King
- Denzel Washington
- Lynn Swann
Black Republicans of the past
- Frederick Douglass
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Harriet Tubman
- Sojourner Truth
- George Washington Carver
- Jackie Robinson
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Booker T. Washington
- Alphonso Jackson
- Rod Paige
- Michael L. Williams
- Alveda C. King
- Edward William Brooke, III
- William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.
- Joe Celestin
- Herman Cain
- A. Philip Randolph
- Hiram Rhodes Revels
- Blanche Bruce
- Ida B. Wells
- Mary Terrell
- Carter G. Woodson
- Keith Butler