The 111th Congress has 42 black congressmen/women. They are...
Alabama Artur Davis (D) California Barbara Lee (D)
Maxine Waters (D)
Diane E. Watson (D)
Laura Richardson (D)
District of Columbia Eleanor Holmes Norton (D)1 Florida Corrine Brown (D)
Alcee L. Hastings (D)
Kendrick Meek (D) Georgia Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D)
John Lewis (D)
Cynthia McKinney (D)
David Scott (D)
Henry "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D) Illinois Danny K. Davis (D)
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D)
Bobby L. Rush (D) Roland Burris (D) Indiana André Carson (D) Maryland Elijah E. Cummings (D)
Donna F. Edwards (D) Michigan Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D)
John Conyers, Jr. (D) Minnesota Keith Ellison (D)
Mississippi Bennie Thompson (D) Missouri William Lacy Clay, Jr. (D)
Emanuel Cleaver II (D) New Jersey Donald M. Payne (D) New York Gregory W. Meeks (D)
Yvette D. Clarke (D)
Charles B. Rangel (D)
Edolphus Towns (D) North Carolina G. K. Butterfield (D)
Melvin Watt (D) Ohio Marcia L. Fudge (D) Pennsylvania Chaka Fattah (D) South Carolina James E. Clyburn (D) Texas Al Green (D)
Sheila Jackson Lee (D)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (D) Virgin Islands Donna M. Christensen (D)1 Virginia Robert C. Scott (D) Wisconsin Gwen Moore (D)
African Americans are underrepresented in Congress, with 42 members in the House (9.5%) and only one in the Senate (1%). Whereas they represent approximately 12-14% of the total US population.
A dozen or so. I don't think it is over 2 dozen.
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Do you mean Congressional Black Caucus? If so then this is the block of Congress that are Black and serving in congress for a number of states.
because it was unfair to the black people the way they treat them and rules they make for the black
because republicans had just finished freeing the slaves as soon as the war was over and the southern states had been readmitted, southern democrats immediately set to work to pass laws limiting the freedom of black people.
There are no Republicans in this group.
Amendments became a permanent part of the Constitution.
Black Radical Congress was created in 1998.
Because the former Confederate States proved to be adverse to accept the right of black to vote and also the Fourteenth Amendment.
National Black Catholic Congress was created in 1889.
The number is not known as most would be undetectable with current technology. They likely number in the millions.
it's called "fear of unknown"
The first directly elected black representative in congress was Joseph Rainey of South Carolina in 1870. But change came slowly, and for many years, there were few blacks in congress. As late as 1967, there were only five black members; this increased to ten in 1969. (It should be noted that most of the black members of congress have served in the House of Representatives. As of 2012, there had only been six black senators in the history of the U.S. Senate.) And in the current (2012) House of Representatives, there are 43 black members.
I assume you are referring to the group of Republicans in the era of the Civil War, rather than some Republicans in the current congress who make controversial statements. The "Radical Republicans" of the early 1860s were a group of Republicans who believed that President Lincoln was not moving fast enough. They wanted a total end to slavery and they believed both races should have equal rights (we may assume they referred to males, since at that time, the idea of giving the vote to women was not being discussed). The "Radical Republicans," who included journalist Horace Greeley, lawyer and politician Benjamin Wade, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, vehemently opposed the Fugitive Slave Act, believed black soldiers should be allowed to serve in the Union army, and wanted a bolder plan for Reconstruction, one that dismantled the white power structure in the deep south. For their era, these Republicans were very much ahead of their time, and were seen as "radicals" in comparison to most of the party, which preferred a more moderate set of changes, or in some cases, no change at all.