2005 Freedom Calendar

January 14, 1975
Republican William T. Coleman nominated as first African-American to be U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

January 15, 1901
Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans.

January 16, 1954
Consuelo Bailey (R-VT) announces her ultimately successful candidacy to become nation’s first woman elected Lt. Governor of a state.

January 17, 1874
Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government

January 18, 1815
Birth of Republican Gov. Richard Yates (R-IL), who prevented Democrat-controlled legislature from withdrawing state troops from the Union Army.

January 19, 1818
Birth of anti-slavery activist Alvan Bovay, who organized first meeting of Republican Party in 1854, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies,

January 20, 2001
Mississippi Republican Rod Paige is confirmed as first African-American U.S. Secretary of Education; calls for school choice to allow poor and minority children to “throw off their chains”.

SOURCE: 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar