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Leroy Johnson

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Image of a portrait of Leroy Johnson. Johnson is depicted sitting in a blue armchair wearing a suit and red tie.Johnson, a prominent attorney, was an advisor to Atlanta, Georgia's civil rights movement in the 1960s. In 1962 he won a state senate seat, becoming the first African American to be elected to the Georgia General Assembly since the end of the Reconstruction era.The original painting is housed on the second floor of the Georgia Capitol Building, Atlanta, Georgia.
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