"I said Georgia
Ooh Georgia, no peace I find
Just an old sweet song
Keeps #Georgia on my mind"
—Ray Charles
Until you understand why #AfricanAmericans left the Republican Party, you will never understand the Republican Party.
#TheLilyWhiteMovement
"Father characterized the promoters of the warfare as THIEVES."
"Father asked no quarter in the coming struggle and would give none. The White Republicans, angered, attempted to influence the colored delegates to split on the color question."
25 years AFTER the Civil War.
132 years ago ...
"However, in 1888, the struggle was begun by the organization of "white Republican clubs," for the purpose of controlling the county conventions"
blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2020/02/maud-c…
"The Negro troubles are resulting in the great masses of colored people shutting out WHITE #immigration. There is but one way to Republican success, and that is that the WHITE REPUBLICAN come forward and take charge.”
— 1884, Lily White Republican Leader
Why African Americans left the Republican Party
"This decline can be attributed to a general upswing in Lily-White challenges across the South – initiated with President Herbert Hoover’s blessing ."
broadstreet.blog/2020/09/14/the…
Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 amazon.com/dp/1107158435/…
All over the South ...
#VIRGINIA: The Lily White Republican Movement
A Republican response to being labeled the Party of the Negro
www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/…
What became of that Republican party built to defend black interest -- later DENEGROFIED for lily-white objectives?
*Party Realignment | US House of Representatives
history.house.gov/Exhibitions-an…
*THE REPUBLICAN LILY-WHITE MOVEMENT
tshaonline.org/handbook/onlin…
"In regard to being invited into the party we wish to say that the Anglo-African does NOT have to be invited into the Republican party. He has no doubt been too loyal. It was the Anglo-Saxon who was invited into the ranks of the party."
"[The Lily-White Republicans] came in and took possession and shut the door on the Anglo-African."
Respectfully, S.H. VICK
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