![]() The first had been Hiram Revels, of Mississippi, in 1870, and, like Warnock, Revels had been a man of the Word. King’s church in Atlanta, became the first African American ever sent to the Senate from his state and the eleventh Black American to be elevated to that chamber overall. Then came the special elections in Georgia in January, when, on the eve of the insurrection at the U.S. Vivian-only reinforced my sense that the history of the first Reconstruction was being refracted through our own lives and in our own time. ![]() The tense days that followed-made all the more desolate by the loss of such icons as John Lewis and C.T. ![]()
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