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Article: 150th Anniversary of the Republican Party
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- Westside Gazette
- Article date:
- March 9, 2006
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The history of civil rights for Black Americans is the history of the Republican Party.
March 20, 1854 - Several dozen anti-slavery activists met in Ripon, Wis. and called for a new political party, the Republican Party - to stop the Democrat's pro-slavery agenda.
July 6, 1854 - In Jackson, Mich., the first Republican Party state convention of 10,000 antislavery activists was held in "The Oaks". Among the leaders of that meeting was a former mayor of Detroit, Zachariah Chandler, who had protected slaves escaping North in the Underground Railroad. Chandler would later serve in the U.S. Senate and as chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC).
Feb. 23, 1856 - Delegates established ...