Georgia’s first Black Congressman since Reconstruction

Born on March 3, 1836 in Knoxville, Georgia, Jefferson Long would go on to become the second African American elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and ultimately the first African American Congressman to speak on the House floor.

the deaths of over a million communist soldiers

post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans

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