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By the time of the first edition of the House sponsored book, Black Americans in Congress, in the bicentennial year of 1976, 45 African Americans had served in Congress throughout history; that rose to 66 by the second edition in 1990, and there were further sustained increases in both the 2008 and 2018 editions. [3]
During the founding of the federal government, African Americans were consigned to a status of second-class citizenship or enslaved. [3] No African American served in federal elective office before the ratification in 1870 of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the federal and state ...
After Congress passed the First Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 and ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870, African Americans began to be elected or appointed to national, state, county and local offices throughout the United States.
"African American Members of the United States Congress: 1870–2012" – 66-page history produced by the Congressional Research Service, a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 – Present" – perform search of desired representative or delegate by last name, first ...
Nevertheless, many African Americans served in its legislature and Mississippi was the only state that elected African American candidates to the U.S. Senate during the Reconstruction era; a total of 37 African Americans served in the Senate and 117 served in the House. [59] [60]
On Tuesday, Jennifer McClellan made history, becoming the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in Virginia.McClellan, a Democrat, won a special election in the Fourth Congressional ...
At the age of 26 in 1872, Lynch was elected as the youngest member of the US Congress from Mississippi's 6th congressional district, as part of the first generation of African-American Congressmen. (This district was created by the state legislature in 1870.) He was the only African American elected from Mississippi for a century.
Trump campaign spokesman Brian Hughes posted on his social account that Donalds was a "respected black leader" and referenced comments Biden made in 2020 that African Americans "ain’t Black" if ...