📚 On This Day in Black History – December 12, 1870 📚

Today we honor Joseph Hayne Rainey, the first African American to be seated in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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His election marked a breakthrough moment in Reconstruction and a challenge to those determined to limit Black political power.
Leadership like this doesn’t fade. It clears the way. INerasable.

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December 12 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley December 12 Peace Love Art Activism, Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina took his seat in the House of Representatives, becoming the first black congressman.

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