LeGree S. Daniels, 85; Headed Black Republican Group
LeGree S. Daniels, 85, former co-chairwoman of the National Black Republican Council, died Saturday at her home in Harrisburg, Pa., after a brief illness.
Daniels served three years as co-chairwoman of the organization in the early 1980s and headed Blacks for Reagan-Bush in 1984, when the GOP ticket was reelected by a landslide.
During Reagan’s second term as president, he appointed her assistant secretary for civil rights in the U.S. Department of Education.
She resigned from the National Black Republican Council’s leadership in 1985, citing the lack of black involvement in the GOP.
“I am frustrated, not just frustrated with the party as such. I’m frustrated maybe with black Republicans and our ability to get the story out about what this administration has done for black America,” she told the Associated Press.
A native of Barnwell, S.C., Daniels attended Temple University and Central Pennsylvania Business School.
After serving as a staff assistant to former Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, (R-Pa.), she worked in a number of government offices in Pennsylvania.
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