During the Reconstruction, African Americans from Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Virginia--former slave-owning states--were elected to
Congress in remarkable numbers. They included lawyers, teachers,
businessmen, editors, and ministers. African Americans gained the
right to vote through the Reconstruction Acts and the Civil War
Amendments, and elected 2 blacks to the Senate and 19 to the House
of Representatives. This book provides brief biographical sketches
of these extraordinary politicians and excerpts from documents
illuminating their activities in Congress.
These politicians took an active role and spoke out on issues
from civil rights legislation and policies on Native Americans to
the Chinese Exclusion Bill and foreign policy. They demanded a
federal law making lynching a capital crime, denounced massacres in
the South, and decried the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. They
played important roles until the South successfully drove blacks
away from the polls and from Congress.
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