Freedom Calendar 10/14/06 - 10/21/06

October 14, 1890, Birth of Dwight Eisenhower, who as President spearheaded Republican civil rights initiatives including 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts; used federal troops, marshals, and Justice Dept. officials to force Democrat governors to desegregate public schools.

October 15, 1914, African-American Republican James Weldon Johnson, celebrated poet of Harlem Renaissance movement, becomes editor of leading black journal, New York Age; served as Theodore Roosevelt’s Consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua.

October 16, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country.

October 17, 1989, Appointed by President George H. W. Bush, Antonia Novello becomes first woman and first Hispanic to be U.S. Surgeon General.

October 18, 1871, After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan.

October 19, 1956, On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”.

October 20, 1942, 60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto, calling on southern Democrats to abolish their all-white primaries.

October 21, 1837, Birth of Sara Spencer, Secretary of National Woman Suffrage Association; her address to 1876 Republican National Convention was first by a woman before a major party.

“Every right that has been bestowed upon blacks was initiated by the Republican Party.”

Mary Terrell, African-American Republican and co-founder of the NAACP

SOURCE: Republican Freedom Calendar

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