The emergence of a “silent black majority,” a term coined by former assistant secretary Daniel Patrick Moynihan in a 1970 memo to President Richard Nixon, remained mostly hidden from mainstream America during the 1960s and 1970s because civil rights leaders and Black Power activists took center stage in the Black freedom struggle. And in some cases, their views were maligned by those who saw them as antithetical to the racial advancement of African Americans. However, this session examines how a silent majority of Black Republicans (including socially conservative Blacks who remained loyal to the Democratic Party) responded to post-World War II challenges such as: communism, crime, drug abuse, racial uprisings, and even immigration. They adopted varied approaches to these issues that included championing conventional conservative ideas while acknowledging the racialized experiences of African Americans living in postwar urban communities. Black anticrime activists, local press, and women’s auxiliary groups endorsed a variety of views, ranging from virulent anticommunism and nativism to tough-on-crime measures, that paralleled and deviated from the white silent majority. The tendency to conflate the term “Black conservatism” with “Black Republicanism” has obscured the salience of this ideology among African Americans, especially during the period after the election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and before the rise of Black neoconservatism in the wake of President Ronald Reagan’s landslide election victory. But a renewed focus on Black conservatism, particularly at the local level, underscores its multilayered meanings and overlooked grassroots support between the 1960s and 1980s.