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@Reuters 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"

— Maud Cuney Hare

@Reuters "It was their object to create a factional fight among the colored men, so that THEY would be free from blame."

-- Maud Cuney Hare

@Reuters “We shall have some disturbers,” McDonald predicted before the 1898 convention.

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@Reuters The party founded to liberate black people — later stolen by White People

And, not one word about it.

It's as if it never happened.

And yet, technically, this would be The First Southern Strategy.

@Reuters 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.

@Reuters White Supremacist aren't the only ones with foresight!

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@Reuters "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

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

@Reuters The largest organized theft of a political party in world history - stolen from African Americans?

A political party, birthed for black people, black interest; later stolen for white interest.

That should enrage you.

@Reuters All over the South ...

#VIRGINIA: The Lily White Republican Movement

A Republican response to being labeled the Party of the Negro

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@Reuters 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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@Reuters Free E-Book: Norris Wright Cuney: a tribune of the black people - Maud Cuney-Hare - Google Books books.google.com/books/about/No…

@Reuters The individual Maude picks to write ✍the introduction (a personal friend of her father) -- was also the Chair of the Republican National Committee.

@Reuters "James S. Clarkson was a delegate to each Republican National Convention from 1876 to 1896; a member of the Republican National Committee from 1880 to 1896; chairman of the Committee from 1891 to 1892,and President of the Republican League of the United States from 1891 to 1893."

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@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter "It was their object to create a factional fight among the colored men, so that THEY would be free from blame."

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter "At the Galveston Convention of Apri 3rd, which was held in pursuance of a call of the Chairman of the County Republican Executive Committee, ....

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter ... , for the purpose of selecting delegates to the State Republican Convention which was to meet at Fort Worth in September,
father,

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter ... [Norris Wright Cuney] who had been selected as a delegate, was called upon to address the meeting."

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter "He spoke with no bridled tongue of the political outrages in Arkansas and Fort Bend County, Texas, and stated that he recognized the fight was to overthrow the Negro Republicans in the State."

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter [Father] characterized the promoters of the warfare as thieves and pickpockets.
He 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.

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter "It was their object to create a factional fight among the colored men, so that [The Lily White Republicans] would be free from blame."

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter "Their main fight was centered on the chairmanship of the
convention, placing Louis Johnson against Ed.
Davis, who was proposed by the Cuneyites for the position."

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter "The Cuney element won, and the delegation was equally divided among the white and colored."

Hare, Maud Cuney (1913). Norris Wright Cuney: A Tribune of the Black People. Crisis Publishing Company. 

CHAPTER XII.

The "Lily Whites."

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter And, what's most intriguing about her book: Maude is writing about something she observed -- a new, radical, racist, "insurgency" coming to denegrofy the Republican party.

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter African Americans are largely in control of the southen wing, of the party. It's an inclusive party.

The Lily-white Movement is just forming ...

They are the "insurgents" she keeps referring to.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-whit…

@Reuters @KevinMKruse @drantbradley @AlsoACarpenter The Denegrofication of The Republican Party

(Fordham University) - A new book exposes the The Lily-White Republican Movement.

Book Talk: Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968" 



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