Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the

In his narrative history of black Republicans in the twentieth century, Joshua Farrington reevaluates the relationship between black politicians, activists, and

From many to few -- Beyond Uncle Tom -- Race doesn't matter -- Black power through conservative principles -- Like crabs in a barrel -- Whither the Republican P

Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one.

The transformation of Southern politics over the past fifty years has been one of the most significant developments in American political life. The emergence of