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Image of an illustration of freedmen registering to vote during Congressional Reconstruction in a drive conducted by the U.S. military. A line of African American men stand behind a table. The first man in line looks downward, appearing to contemplate his options.Between 1867 and 1872, sixty-nine African Americans from Georgia served either as delegates to the 1867 constitutional convention or as members of the state legislature.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Men
- African Americans
- Civil Rights
- Freedmen
- Men
- Southern States
- Suffrage
- Tables
- United States
- Voting
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