During February, Black History Month, Republican candidates and office-holders should hail the GOP's heritage of civil rights achievement.  A forgotten hero of the modern-day civil rights movement, Herbert Brownell, was born on this day in 1904.A protégé of Gov. Thomas Dewey, Brownell entered Republican politics as a New York state legislator.  He served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1944-1946.  Brownell helped convince Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to seek the 1952 Republican presidential nomination, and then became President Eisenhower's Attorney General.Herbert Brownell was instrumental in the appointment of his old friend, Republican Gov. Earl Warren, as Chief Justice in 1953.  The next year, Brownell's Justice Department submitted a brief to the Supreme Court arguing against racial segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.  It was he who suggested to Eisenhower that he send U.S. troops to force the Democrat...(Read Full Post)