June 18, 1912, African-American Robert Church, founder of Lincoln Leagues to register black voters in Tennessee, attends 1912 Republican National Convention as delegate; eventually serves as delegate at 8 conventions.
19 Father’s Day, June 19, 1865, On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation.
June 20, 1964, The Chicago Defender, renowned African-American newspaper, praises Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) for leading passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act.
June 21, 1832, Birth of U.S. Rep. Joseph Rainey (R-SC), former slave who in 1870 became first African-American member of U.S. House.
June 22, 1870, Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South.
June 23, 1958, President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights.
June 24, 1940, Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR fails to order it.
June 25, 1996, Death of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Elbert Tuttle, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower; eulogized for ensuring that Brown v. Board of Education became “a broad mandate for racial justice”.
“Slavery is a violation of the rights of a man; that the law of nature which is the law of liberty, gives to no man rights superior to those of another; that God and nature have secured to each individual the inalienable right of equality - Upon a hatred of slavery, and the desire for an accountable, fiscally responsible, government, the above resolution was overwhelmingly adopted in its entirety.”
The first Republican state party platform, Michigan, 1854
SOURCE: 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar
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