Freedom Calendar 09/08/07 - 09/15/07

September 8, 2003 ,Speaking five decades after Brown v. Board of Education, President George W. Bush challenges teachers’ unions to embrace standards in inner-city education: “This society of ours must challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations”.

September 9, 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act.

September 10, 1877, Birth of Georgia Douglas Johnson, celebrated African-American poet of Harlem Renaissance movement; she served as Labor Department official during the Coolidge and Hoover administrations.

September 11, 1866, Birth of African-American Republican Charles Scrutchin; successfully defended 6 African-Americans arrested after a mob in Minnesota lynched 3 of their companions.

September 12, 1868, Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress.

September 13, 1988, President Ronald Reagan proclaims first National Hispanic Heritage Week.

September 14, 1874, Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed.

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.

"We should reach each and every one in the State, so they would all register and vote for the Republican candidates.”

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

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