October 29, 1864, African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: 'I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man'.
October 30, 1829, Birth of civil rights champion and U.S. Senator Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), instrumental in founding Republican Party in New York.
October 31, 1882, Death of African-American Republican, union organizer, and Texas state legislator George Ruby.
November 1, 1879, Death of U.S. Senator Zachariah Chandler (R-MI), Underground Railroad conductor and co-founder of the Republican Party.
November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan makes Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday.
November 3, 1868, Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation.
November 4, 1986, Republican Kay Orr of Nebraska elected as state’s first woman governor; also first woman to defeat another woman in a gubernatorial race.
November 5, 2002, Michael Steele, former Chairman of Maryland Republican Party, elected as first African-American Lt. Governor in state history.
"We believe that everyone deserves a chance, that everyone has value, that no insignificant person was ever born. We believe that all are diminished when any are hopeless. We are one people, committed to building a single nation of justice and opportunity.”
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
SOURCE: 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar more at Freedom Calendar or Republican and Republicans or African-Americans and Underground Railroad or Ronald Reagan and Emancipation Proclamation
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