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The Significance of a Black Man Winning a Georgia Senate Seat

     In early September 1868, two months after Georgia’s readmission to the Union, its state legislature expelled 30 of its Black representatives. The federal government interceded in 1870, two years after the attack on Black representatives, to make Georgia seat its Black representatives. Many thought this was a good policy for the government to take, but it was hardly a solution. […]