Freedom Calendar 08/13/05 - 08/20/05

August 13, 1818, Birth of Lucy Stone, Republican anti-slavery and women’s rights activist; founder of American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.

August 14, 1996, Pacific Research Institute President Sally Pipes, addressing Republican National Convention on future of civil rights movement, calls for government which “treats all its citizens equally under the law”.

August 15, 1988, President Ronald Reagan addresses Republican National Convention: “Our Party speaks for human freedom, for the sweep of liberties that are at the core of our existence”.

August 16, 1817, Birth of Republican anti-slavery and civil rights activist U.S. Rep. Henry Davis (R-MD).

August 17, 1937, Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation.

August 18, 1920, Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures.

August 19, 1862, Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation.

August 20, 1996, Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes law.

“Let me appeal to that great class who love liberty, truth, justice and humanity to stand by the party that abolished slavery”

Governor Oliver Morton (R-IN), whose statue is in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol and also at the entrance to the Indiana State Capitol Building, 1866

SOURCE: 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar more at Freedom Calendar or Republican and Republicans