African Americans in Office (1 ene 1962 año – 1 ene 2008 año)

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California elected its first African American to Congress in 1962. In 1966, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts was elected the first African American U.S. senator since Reconstruction. In 1967, Gary Stokes of Cleveland, Ohio, and Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana, were elected the first African American mayors of major U.S. cities. The South took a while to make a change, but eventually, in Georgia, voters elected their first African American to Congress since Reconstruction in 1972. However, the South did not elect another African American until 1990s, because of discrimination against them. Later on, more and more African Americans began to be voted into Office.

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