Freedom Calendar 01/22/05 - 01/29/05

January 22, 2001
Republican Condoleezza Rice becomes first woman and second African-American to serve as U.S. National Security Advisor

January 23. 1993
Death of Judge John Robert Brown, leader in fight for Southern desegregation; appointed by President Eisenhower to U.S. Court of Appeals

January 24, 2001
Republican Mel Martínez, appointed by President George W. Bush as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, becomes first Cuban-American in Cabinet

January 25, 2001
U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee declares school choice to be “Educational Emancipation

January 26, 1922
House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster

January 27, 1964
U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME), first woman to be considered for nomination by a major party, announces candidacy for President; she finishes 2nd at Republican National Convention

January 28, 1818
Birth of anti-slavery activist George Boutwell, a founder of Massachusetts Republican Party; later served in Congress and as U.S. Treasury Secretary

SOURCE: 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar