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@ Tubman African American Musuem

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Rocking chair.This wooden rocking chair was owned by Jefferson Franklin Long. Born into slavery in Alabama in 1836, Jefferson Long was Georgia's first African American congressman elected in 1870, and the first African American to speak on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. After Long left Congress in 1871, more than one hundred years would pass before Andrew Young became the second African American from Georgia to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1972.Gift of Dorothy Douglass to the Tubman African American Museum.

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Tubman African American Musuem

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Digital Library of Georgia