Sent to you by Tee via Google Reader: Dr. Henry Lucas dies at 77; Republican activist was one of first African Americans to serve on the RNC via Black Politics on the Web by The Admin on 6/7/09
Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times - Dr. Henry Lucas, a Republican activist who was one of the first African Americans to serve on the Republican National Committee, died Tuesday in San Francisco after suffering a stroke. He was 77. Lucas, a Bay Area dentist for five decades, met Ronald Reagan in the mid-1960s when the former actor first ran for California governor. He traveled and campaigned with Reagan and later used his clout to mobilize other conservative blacks for political action. In 1980 he and conservative commentator Thomas Sowell organized the Black Alternatives Conference with support from the incoming Reagan White House. Reagan sent his top aide, Ed Meese, to the meeting in San Francisco, which drew black professionals and business people. Lucas believed it was important to raise the national profile of conservative African Americans and provide an alternative to the “old-line black leadership” dominated by liberals. Click here for more… ShareThis Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Black Politics on the Web using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Black Focus Inc." group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Black-Focus-Inc?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
