When Raphael G. Warnock, Democrat of Georgia takes the oath of office on January 20, 2023, he will be only the 11th Black Senator in all of American history.
Reconstruction era: Hiram Rhodes Revels (D-MS), the FIRST Black Senator In United States History (1870-1872); Blanche K. Bruce (D-MS), (1875-1881).
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I think if Lincoln wasn't assassinated, history would have been so much different. I believe black people would have continued to be elected and Jim Crow might not have happened at all.
@Pat Historians have speculated on that for generations. Hard to say. The thing about Lincoln was that he was willfully to grow in his thought processes. Yes, he had the conventional prejudices of his dsy, but after meeting people like Frederick Douglass and seeing the courage of black soldiers in the civil war, he began to evolve. We will never know but I think it’s safe to say that Andrew Johnson was the LAST person who should have replaced him.