Prominent African Americans Not Included in Smithsonian’s African American Museum

Posted: October 18, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Art & Culture, Health and Social Issues, History, Think Tank | Tags: African American Museum (New York), Alveda King, Cora Brown, Kenneth Blackwell, Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Michael Steele, National Civil Rights Museum, Sen. Tim Scot, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, United States, Walter E. Williams |Leave a comment

Besides Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, other African Americans not included in the museum, who are conservatives, are:

• Cora Brown, first African American woman elected to a United States state Senate, winning a seat in the Michigan State Senate in 1952.

• Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., who served in the Georgia state legislature and is a pro-life advocate with Priests for Life.

• Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), first African-American senator from the state of South Carolina, the first black Republican elected to the United States Senate since the election of Edward Brooke in 1966, and the first elected from the South since 1881, four years after the end of Reconstruction.

• Michael Steele, first African-American chairperson of the Republican National Committee, who served from January 2009 until January 2011.

• Kenneth Blackwell, mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1979 to 1980, the Ohio State Treasurer from 1994 to 1999, and Ohio Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007.

• Thomas Sowell, American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author.

• Shelby Steele, American author, columnist, documentary filmmaker, and a Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

• Walter E. Williams, American economist who is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University.