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Century washe 19th george white of North Carolina in 1901. It is a long time before another African American comes into the house. That is oscar dupree from illinois. We have a couple of really rare artifacts from him from the 1920s and 30s. Before i launch into them, matt, tell us about oscar dupree. And how he got into congress. Decades is almost three after George Henry White leaves congress when there are no African Americans who served in the house or senate to that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south. The way that that changes over time during those decades, there is a critical thing going on in the south were African Americans begin to leave the south and move northward as part of a multidecade movement that would later be called the great migration. That begins, depending on which historian you talk to, the 1890s and runs through world war ii. It picks up momentum around world war i as there is a need in the north to fill industrial job

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