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1862
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President
Abraham Lincoln is the first president to meet with a group of black
leaders
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1864
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The
Republican National Convention makes the abolition of slavery a plank in
its platform
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1868
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Oscar
J. Dunn becomes Lieutenant Governor in Louisiana
P.B.S
Pinchback and James J. Harris become the first African-American
delegates to the Republican National Convention, held in Chicago
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1870
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Hiram
R. Revels is elected to fill U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Jefferson
Davis
Joseph
H. Rainey, South Carolina, becomes the first African-American
Congressman
Alonzo
J. Ransier is elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina before being
elected to the U.S. Congress in '72
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1871
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Robert
B. Elliot chairs South Carolina delegation to the Republican National
Convention in Philadelphia
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1872
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John
R. Lynch is elected Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives;
he will be elected to US Congress in 73
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1875
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Blanche
K. Bruce of Mississippi becomes the first African-American elected to a
full term in US Senate
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1884
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John
R. Lynch is the first African-American to preside over the Republican
National Convention; gives the keynote address
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1901
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President
Theordore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White
House
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1920
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The
Republican National Convention declares that African-Americans must be
admitted to all state and district conventions
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1954
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President
Dwight Eisenhower appoints J. Ernest Wilkins as Assistant Secretary of
Labor
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1960
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Jackie
Robinson, the first black Major League Baseball player, endorses Nixon
for President
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1966
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Edward
W. Brooke (R-MA) is the first African-American elected to U.S. Senate by
popular vote
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1968
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Arthur
A Fletcher is appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor; he will be a
candidate for Chairman of the Republican National Committee in '76 and
appointed Chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights in '90
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1975
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President
Gerald Ford appoints William T. Coleman Secretary of Transportation
James
B. Parsons is named Chief Judge of the US District Court in Chicago, the
first African-American to hold such a position
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1980
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NAACP
President Benjamin Hooks is invited to address the Republican National
Convention
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1981
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President
Ronald Reagan appoints Clarence Pendleton, Jr, as Chairman of the US
Civil Rights Commission
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1982
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President
Reagan appoints Clarence Thomas as Chairman of the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
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1989
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President
George H.W. Bush appoints Louis Sullivan as Secretary of Health and
Human Services
President
Bush appoints General Colin L. Powell as Chair of the US Joint Chiefs of
Staff
President
Bush appoints Condolezza Rice as Director of the National Security
Council
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1990
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Gary
Franks is elected to US Congress (CT)
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1991
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President
Bush appoints Clarence Thomas to U.S. Supreme Court
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1998
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U.S.
House of Representatives elects J.C. Watts (R-OK) to be Chairman of the
House Republican Conference
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2001
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President
George W. Bush appoints General Colin L. Powell as the Secretary of
State; Roderick R. Paige as the Secretary of Education; Condoleezza Rice
as Advisor of the National Security Council; Alphonso Jackson as the
Deputy Secretary to Housing and Urban Development; Claude Alien as the
Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services; Leo S. Mackay, Jr, as the
Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Larry D. Thompson as the Deputy
Attorney General; and Stephen A. Perry as Adminstrator of General
Services Adminstration
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