Freedom Calendar 11/25/06 - 12/02/06

November 25, 1955, Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel.

November 26, 2002, Republican Judy Baar Topinka becomes first woman to chair either major party in Illinois.

November 27, 1857, Birth of Republican Robert Terrell, women’s suffrage advocate; appointed as first African-American judge in District of Columbia by PresidentTheodore Roosevelt.

November 28, 1989, President George H. W. Bush establishes National Museum of the American Indian.

November 29, 1935, Death of African-American U.S. Rep. Henry Cheatham (R-NC), who served as delegate to two Republican National Conventions.

November 30, 1983, Clarence Pendleton completes first term as first African-American Chairman of U.S. Civil Rights Commission; appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

December 1, 1873, African-American Republican Alonzo Ransier, former South Carolina Republican Party Chairman and Lt. Governor, sworn in as U.S. Representative (R-SC).

December 2, 1863, Phillip Reid, former slave set free by Republicans’ 1862 D.C. Emancipation Act, watches his statue Freedom placed atop U.S. Capitol.

"With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope. Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.”

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

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