In the nearly 232-year history of the US Senate, there have only been 11 Black senators

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In the nearly 232-year history of the US Senate, there have only been 11 Black senators

Newly elected Raphael Warnock is only the 11th Black US senator since the Senate convened for the first time in 1789. Here are the 11 senators:

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Blacks Elected to Congress

Sixteen Blacks were elected to Congress. Andrew Young of Atlanta was the first Black elected to Congress from the Deep South since the Reconstruction era. Also elected for the first time were Barbara Jordan (Tex.) and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (Calif.). Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke of

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17

1972

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Williams, George Washington (1849-1891)

George Washington Williams was a 19th century American historian most famous for his volumes, History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880; as Negroes, as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens (1882), and A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion (1887).Williams was born in

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