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1872 Currier and Ives print showing the first Black U.S. Senator and Representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC), 1872. The following is a list of Black Republicans, past and present. This list is limited ...
"The New Black Republicans." WBUR, Boston's NPR. June 2, 2004. Organizations. Alliance of Black Republicans; African American Republican Leadership Council; Black Conservative Think Tank; Black America's PAC; Congress of Racial Equality; American Civil Rights Institute; New Coalition for Economic and Social Change; National Black Republican ...
Two new black Republicans, Will Hurd of Texas's 23rd district and Mia Love of Utah's 4th district, were elected in 2014, with Love being the first ever black Republican woman to be elected to Congress. She lost reelection in 2018, leaving Hurd as the only black Republican member of the U.S. House.
Check the history books for a better example of moral leadership: Hiram Revels, the first Black Republican in the Senate.
Michigan-based Republican strategist Jason Roe also told The Post that Republican gains among black voters are only with men. Republicans are hoping to make marginal gains among black voters in ...
“We don’t have Black poverty or white poverty. We have poverty,” Scott recently told an all-white audience in Iowa OSKALOOSA, The post Tim Scott is the top Black Republican in the GOP ...
Joseph Rainey (left) was the first African American to serve in the U.S. House; Shirley Chisholm (right) was the first African-American woman elected to the chamber. The United States House of Representatives has had 157 elected African-American members, of whom 151 have been representatives from U.S. states and 6 have been delegates from U.S ...
As the 119 th Congress begins on Friday, Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is poised to make history as the longest-serving African American in the 235-year history of the U.S. Senate ...