Posted by
KWillS on Friday, May 18, 2007 3:07:14 PM
Thanks to the Senate for providing the following facts. Let's see in 231 years the Democrats
have elected 2 blacks to the Senate. The Grand Ole Party has elected 3 in the 154 years the Republican party has existed they have elected 3. Of course since slavery, (abolition being a key plank in the GOP's formation), ended despite Democrat efforts to keep it, it's clear why there have been more Rs than Ds in the Senate's black history.
Ethnic Diversity in the Senate
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Hiram Revels (R-MS)
African Americans:
Hiram R. Revels (R-Mississippi), 1870-71
Blanche K. Bruce (R-Mississippi), 1875-1881
Edward W. Brooke (R-Massachusetts), 1967-1979
Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Illinois), 1993-1999
Barack Obama (D-Illinois), 2005-