The story of black conservatives in the Republican Party from the New Deal to Ronald Reagan Covering more than four decades of American social and political his

Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the

What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote democratic?

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