Our Black Forefathers

Why are so many Black Americans Democrats when our lineage is based with the Republican Party? Ask your self this question, Why in the 1930 during the Roosevelt Administration did so may blacks switch to the Democratic party? 

[edit]Black Congressmen during the Reconstruction era, after Slavery.

Representative	Party	State	Term	Lifespan	Former slave
John Willis Menard[1]	Republican	Louisiana	1868	1838-1893	No
Joseph Rainey	Republican	South Carolina	1870-1879	1832-1887	Yes
Jefferson F. Long	Republican	Georgia	1870-1871	1836-1901	Yes
Robert C. De Large	Republican	South Carolina	1871-1873	1842-1874	No
Robert B. Elliott	Republican	South Carolina	1871-1874	1842-1884	No
Benjamin S. Turner	Republican	Alabama	1871-1873	1825-1894	Yes
Josiah T. Walls	Republican	Florida	1871-1873, 1873-1875, 1875-1876	1842-1905	Yes
Richard H. Cain	Republican	South Carolina	1873-1875, 1877-1879	1825-1887	No
John R. Lynch	Republican	Mississippi	1873-1877, 1882-1883	1847-1939	Yes
James T. Rapier	Republican	Alabama	1873-1875	1837-1883	No
Alonzo J. Ransier	Republican	South Carolina	1873-1875	1834-1882	No
Jeremiah Haralson	Republican	Alabama	1875-1877	1846-1916	Yes
John Adams Hyman	Republican	North Carolina	1875-1877	1840-1891	Yes
Charles E. Nash	Republican	Louisiana	1875-1877	1844-1913	No
Robert Smalls	Republican	South Carolina	1875-1879, 1882-1883, 1884-1887	1839-1915	Yes
James E. O'Hara	Republican	North Carolina	1883-1887	1844-1905	No
Henry P. Cheatham	Republican	North Carolina	1889-1893	1857-1935	Yes
John Mercer Langston	Republican	Virginia	1890-1891	1829-1897	No
Thomas E. Miller	Republican	South Carolina	1890-1891	1849-1938	No
George W. Murray	Republican	South Carolina	1893-1895, 1896-1897	1853-1926	Yes
George Henry White	Republican	North Carolina	1897-1901	1852-1918	No

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