Jefferson Franklin Long (1836 – 1901), born a slave who educated himself and became a tailor in Macon, Georgia. Served in House of Representatives during as a replacement for only two months in 1871.
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Exodus 20:5
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students at Roger Williams University in Nashville, Tennessee, ca. 1899
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An actual postcard showing the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings
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Listening to Booker T. Washington
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Middle class African American family seated on lawn in Georgia, ca. 1899.
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Southern jails made money leasing convicts for forced labor in the Jim Crow South
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African Americans, members of 369th Colored Infantry, wave from a troop ship as they arrive back in New York City, ca. 1919