1 jan 1868 ano - SC- state legislature is a majority of African american men in the lower house of legislature

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-many african americans served in state admins in reconstruction (governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, or lesser offices)
-More than six hundred became state legislators, and sixteen were congressmen.
-souther dem's-contempt for black politicians (many of whom in the south were freedmen or were war heroes who helped the Union, many were educated| joined by northern black ppl who wanted to support reconstruction)
"Many African American leaders in the South came from the ranks of antebellum free blacks. Others were skilled men like Robert Smalls of South Carolina, who in slavery had worked for wages that he turned over to his master. Smalls, a steamer pilot in Charleston harbor, had become a war hero when he escaped with his family and other slaves and brought his ship to the Union navy. Buying property in Beaufort after the war, Smalls became a state legislator and later a congressman. Blanche K. Bruce, another formerly enslaved political leader, had been tutored on a Virginia plantation by his white father; during the war, he escaped and established a school for freedmen in Missouri. In 1869, he moved to Mississippi and became, five years later, Mississippi’s second black U.S. senator. Political leaders such as Smalls and Bruce were joined by northern blacks — including ministers, teachers, and Union veterans — who moved south to support Reconstruction."

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