Grand Old Partisan highlights the first-ever Virginia Republican Convention. To prepare the state for its first postwar election, Unionists established a state GOP central committee.
March 1867, chairman Lysander Hill and five other committeemen issued a call for the first Virginia Republican convention.
It took place at Richmond's First African Baptist Church, on April 17th. One hundred sixty of two hundred ten delegates were former slaves.
Led by Baptist preacher James Hunnicutt, the convention adopted a platform calling for legal equality of the races and submission to congressional Republican Reconstruction policies.
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Michael Zak is author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, a history of GOP civil rights achievement.
Each day, Michael Zak's grandoldpartisan YouTube channel and Grand Old Partisan blog celebrate more than sixteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. And, see Speech Raves for audience feedback from his presentations in thirty-one states so far.
He also wrote the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar.
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