[fieldmarshaldj]

There was only 1 Black in Congress after Jim Crow went into full effect from between 1901-1935, and that was Chicago's Oscar Stanton DePriest, a Conservative Republican from South Side. He was defeated after serving 3 terms in 1934 by the first Black Democrat ever elected to Congress, Arthur Wergs Mitchell. No Black Republican was ever elected again to the House until the Virgin Islands' US Delegate Melvin Evans was in 1978.

[dubyajames]

This is very true. There was not another black Republican in a voting position in the House until Gary Franks won a seat from Connecticut in 1990. Although Edward Brooke was elected to the U.S. Senate by Massachusetts as a Republican in 1966. He served two terms but was defeated by Paul Tsongas in 1978.