Freedom Calendar 09/15/07 - 09/22/07

September 15, 1981, President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs.

September 16, 1949, Death of African-American Republican and women’s rights activist Hallie Quinn Brown, instrumental in rallying women of all races to support Republican candidates.

September 17, 1971, Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he had defended Klansmen for racial murders.

September 18, 1895, Republican civil rights activist Booker T. Washington tells white audience in Atlanta: “There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all”.

September 19, 1881, Tuskegee Institute, under leadership of African-American Republican Booker T. Washington, opens for classes.

September 20, 1876, Former state Attorney General Robert Ingersoll (R-IL) tells veterans: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat… I am a Republican because it is the only free party that ever existed”.

September 21, 1872, Nominated by African-American U.S. Rep. Robert B. Elliott (R-SC), South Carolina’s James Conyers becomes first African-American midshipman at U.S. Naval Academy.

September 22, 1862, Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation.

“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

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