Reconstruction: The First Black Legislators
Excerpt from "African American Firsts in Government," Book #4 in the African American History for Kids series by T.M. Moody
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed an important document called the Emancipation Proclamation. This document stated that all enslaved people in the Confederate states had to be set free. It would take over two years before all the enslaved people were set free. There weren’t phones or the internet back then, so messengers traveled on h…
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