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America's first black legislators and the work to revive their legacies

WUGA | By Emma Auer
Published June 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM MDT

Alfred Richardson and Madison Davis were the first black legislators in Athens, Georgia, elected in 1868. The backlash against them still reverberates today.

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