 | November 22, 1865, Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination. November 23, 1860, Birth into slavery of Republican Edward Johnson, historian and first African-American New York state legislator (1917-18); helped outlaw racial discrimination in public accommodations. |
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.
"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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The Freedom Calendar’s 19th Edition features so many cool things, that we’ll want to order in bulk and pass them out in your precincts or to friends and relatives
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