First black American to serve in United States Congress and first black senator: Hiram Rhodes Revels, Republican from Mississippi (1827–1901).

https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/R/REVELS,-Hiram-Rhodes-(R000166)/

Malcolm X: black supremacist.

Martin Luther King: socialist.

Booker T. Washington: patriot and capitalist.

1960s Goldwater-era "party switch" = lie. Conservative Southern Democrats did not start migrating to GOP en masse until the 1990s, post-Reagan.

First black American to serve in United States Congress and first black senator: Hiram Rhodes Revels, Republican from Mississippi (1827–1901).

https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/R/REVELS,-Hiram-Rhodes-(R000166)/

Malcolm X: black supremacist.

Martin Luther King: socialist.

Booker T. Washington: patriot and capitalist.

1960s Goldwater-era "party switch" = lie. Conservative Southern Democrats did not start migrating to GOP en masse until the 1990s.