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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.
==Contemporary==
==In order of birthdate==
*[[Sojourner Truth]] (c. 1797 – 1883)
*[[Sojourner Truth]] (c. 1797 – 1883)
*[[Frederick Douglass]] (c. 1818 – 1895)
*[[Frederick Douglass]] (c. 1818 – 1895)
*[[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)
*[[Michael L. Williams]]
*[[Michael L. Williams]]