Lawrence Douglas Wilder, born on Jan. 17, 1931, and named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass, made history as America’s first Black governor when he was elected in Virginia on Nov. 7, 1989. Serving from 1990 to 1994, Wilder, the grandson of a formerly enslaved person, was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War, where […]
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