The civil rights movement aimed to eliminate racial discrimination against African Americans, improve their educational and employment opportunities, and establish their electoral power, just after th
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867
First Colored Senator and Representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC), 1872
Black people in Memphis under attack, Harper's Weekly, 26 May 1866
Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, AME leader in Georgia.
Norris Wright Cuney
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Norris Wright Cuney was an American politician, businessman, union leader, and advocate for the rights of African-Americans in Texas. Following the American Civil War, he became active in Galveston po
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