June 16, 1854, Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party.
June 17, 1856, Republican National Convention makes John C. Fremont its first Republican presidential nominee, with slogan 'Free soil, free labor, free speech, and Fremont'.
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.
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.
"We continue to work for an America where individuals are celebrated for their abilities, not judged by their disabilities.”
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
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