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In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, “When Black Meant Republican”
“It’s easy to forget now, but just a few generations ago African-Americans overwhelmingly identified themselves as Republicans.”
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“It’s easy to forget now, but just a few generations ago African-Americans overwhelmingly identified themselves as Republicans.”
#maga #RepublicanParty
#BlackLivesMatter
#blackconservatives
#BlackTwitter
#tcot
In the fall of 1895 Atlanta put on one in a series of “International Expositions” designed to highlight its progress in recovering from the war. Racial tensions had been growing since southerners, at the end of Reconstruction, began instituting Jim Crow laws. 
The organizers of the Exposition invited prominent black leader Booker T. Washington to give a keynote address. The position he took in that speech was a calculated gamble. 
