Black Republican
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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
- Martin Luther King, Jr. [1] (King began as a Republican but seemed to have no party affiliation during his years in the spotlight; he criticized the Republican Party later on for catering to the KKK, stating it was turning racist in attempts to win the southern vote. [2])
- Frederick Douglass[1]
- Mary McLeod Bethune[1]
- Colin Powell[1]
- Harriet Tubman[1]
- Sojourner Truth[1]
- George Washington Carver[1]
- Thomas Sowell[1]
- Clarence Thomas[1]
- Michael S. Steele[1]
- Jackie Robinson[1]
- Sammy Davis Jr.[1]
- Booker T. Washington[1]
- Alphonso Jackson[1]
- Rod Paige[1]
- Michael L. Williams[1]
- Alveda C. King[1]
- J. Kenneth Blackwell[1]
- J.C. Watts Jr[1]
- Don King[1]
- Denzel Washington[1]
- Lynn Swann[1]
- Edward William Brooke, III[1]
- William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.[1]
- Joe Celestin[1]
- Herman Cain[1]
- A. Philip Randolph[1]
- Hiram Rhodes Revels[1]
- Blanche Bruce[1]
- Ida B. Wells[1]
- Mary Terrell[1]
- Carter G. Woodson[1]
- Keith Butler
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.BlackGOP&x=4961358
- ↑ http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_23.htm