Texas Republican Party defied the "Jim Crow" Democrats

On this day in 1882, at the Texas Republican Party convention more than half the 400 delegates were African-Americans. During this era of Jim Crow, the Texas GOP bravely defied the segregationist Democrats by remaining racially-integrated.

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