Today is both the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln and the 100th birthday of the NAACP. When the NAACP was founded in 1909, the number of faithful Lincoln Republicans was dwindling, but John E. Milholland was one, an Irish-American and a Presbyterian> He became the NAACP's first Treasurer and focused on what it needed most, money.
FDR later championed black Americans and won them for the Democratic Party. As the Republican party has again been moving to the right...
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