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@NBCNews "Oh look, Sylvia! Isn't that Lincoln's ol' party. That's the party that was stolen from black folk and given to white folk. And, look at what it's become — nothing but a White Nationalist racket!"

@NBCNews The GLOBAL consequences of Republican denegrofication efforts are EVERYWHERE, Honey.

 AND, I MEAN EVERYWHERE!

@NBCNews The Denegrofication of The Republican Party.

From Fordham University: A new book exposes the The Lily-White Republican Movement.

@NBCNews Southen Negro Republicans Wage War On a Racist Movement Coming For It: The Lily-White Movement

Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 amazon.com/dp/1107158435/…

@NBCNews "The "lily-white" movement began within the Republican party after the Civil War. From the first days of Reconstruction, a fight developed not only in Texas but across the South between white and black factions for control of the newly formed party."

@NBCNews Race War: 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/…

@NBCNews What became of that Republican party built to defend black interest -- later DENEGROFIED for lily-white objectives?

*Party Realignment | US House of Representatives

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*THE REPUBLICAN LILY-WHITE MOVEMENT 

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@NBCNews "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."

— Maud Cuney-Hare

@NBCNews Black Republicanism vs The Lily-White Movement

Just before the turn of the century, and not long after The Civil War, another war was fought — a war fought by two members of the same party.

@NBCNews The two groups—one black, the other white—would fight for over a century for control of the southen wing of the Republican  party– and with it, control the moral direction of the entire party and country.

@NBCNews In 1913, an African American pianist writes a memoir about her father -- a politician from Texas, the child of a mixed-race slave. His name was Norris Wright Cuney — and, he was a lion amongst men.

@NBCNews "While remembering her father, she retrieves memories that make her one of the first to document the rise of racism after The Civil War within the Republican Party. It is a first person account of a war between father and a racist movement he quickly labels — "Lily-Whites"."

@NBCNews Maud Cuney-Hare's "Norris Wright Cuney: A Tribune of the Black People" is not just a memoir of her father, but a memoir of his era.

@NBCNews In the book, Maude Cuney Hare documents the rise of two southern strategies: A lily-white strategy to denegrofy the Republican Party, and the Black-and-Tan efforts to stop them.

@NBCNews Black-and-Tans: The Lost History of Southern Republicans, Part II

"The Lily-Whites emerged in Texas in response to Norris Wright Cuney – a mixed-race politician who was born into slavery – becoming Republican state boss in 1886."

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@NBCNews An African Lion in Texas

Norris Wright Cuney never stopped fighting

"A lifelong Republican in the tradition of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, Cuney fought a decades-long battle with the “Lily-Whites,” Texas Republicans obsessed with driving African Americans out of the party."

@NBCNews "Arguably the most famous Galvestonian in history was Arthur John Johnson, a black man born on the island in 1878, the year after the Union army departed, leaving freed blacks at the mercy of embittered former Confederates."

@NBCNews The irrepressible Jack Johnson, who would grow up to be the first black heavyweight champion of the world, credited his hometown for giving him a sense of possibility unavailable to black residents of most other southern cities.

@NBCNews According to his biographer, one Galvestonian in particular was a role model for Johnson and others.

Geoffrey C. Ward, author of “Unforgiveable Blackness,” notes that Galveston, the largest city in Texas at the time, took a more relaxed view of racial apartheid.

@NBCNews Even though whites were in firm control, blacks didn’t feel beaten down. He quotes a longtime resident: “You had all walks of life, races, creeds, colors. . . in here. We were segregated, but it wasn’t as bad as other places in the state of Texas. . . .

@NBCNews Negroes and Caucasian people were poor and lived in the same neighborhood, ate the same food, suffered the same problems.”

@NBCNews "No part of the city was more racially mixed than the 12th Ward, where the future champ grew up. Also living in the 12th, as the New York Times noted in an 1897 article, was “the most prominent Republican politician in the country.”

@NBCNews His name was Norris Wright Cuney, a black man who fought just as fiercely as Jack Johnson, although he didn’t use his fists.

@NBCNews "A deft political power broker, an impassioned, eloquent man whose reading leaned toward Shakespeare and Roman history, Cuney was, as Ward notes, “a constant reminder to neighbors like young Jack Johnson that a black man need not limit his horizons.”

@NBCNews Continue reading: Norris Wright Cuney never stopped fighting

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