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3rd November 1868: John Willis Menard became the first African-American to be elected to Congress

3rd November 2020
Tagged as: African-American, Civil Rights, Congress, Election, Louisiana, New Orleans, Politics, Racism, United States, USA

Running against Caleb S. Hunt, Menard secured approximately 64 percent of the vote, and on 3 November 1868 became the first African-American person to be elected to the United States Congress.

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14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school

14th November 2019
Tagged as: African-American, America, Civil Rights, Desegregation, New Orleans, Racism, USA

Bridges was born in 1954, the same year that the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional.