It is interesting that the North which was supposedly so concerned with the welfare of blacks in the South did not have a black Congressman until 1929 in Illinois. The next Northern state to have a black congressman was New York in 1945. The first black senator in a Northern state did not come until 1967 in Massachusetts followed by Illinois in 1993. What an impressive record. (Sneers sarcastically!) Mississippi had a black senator in 1870 and 1875. The first 21 black congressmen were all from Southern states that had previously seceded from the Union, starting in 1868 with a black man from Louisiana. Ten of those first 21 black congressmen were former slaves. Now I know that the election of blacks to public office in the South was due to reconstruction policies of the Northern occupiers however, it is the Northern revisionists that always want to take the moral high ground when it comes to the race issue yet; no one ever holds them accountable for the North’s hypocritical record. ~✟Robert✟~
Photo: First black Senator and Representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC)
