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For some in Georgia, an answer to their prayers Clyde McGrady, The Washington Post Jan. 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Rev. Raphael Warnock, the projected winner of a Senate runoff election in Georgia, will be the first Black senator in the state s history. Warnock is photographed speaking to canvassers at Elizabeth Porter Park in Marietta, Ga. on Jan. 5, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Kevin D. Liles In early September 1868, two months after Georgia s readmission to the Union, its state legislature expelled almost 30 of its newly elected Black members instead of seating them. Not long afterward, one of the banished members, a man named Philip Joiner, led several hundred Black people and a few White people on a 25-mile march from Albany to Camilla for a political rally. Along the way hundreds of armed White people, led by a local sheriff, opened fire on the parade, killing about a dozen marchers. Joiner and others fled into the woods. ....
By Frederick A. Hurst I know I’m not the only one with Georgia on my mind but I do think my perspective on current political events in Georgia might be a bit unique and certainly nostalgic. Although I was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts along with my four siblings, both my grandmother and grandfather on my mother’s side migrated to Springfield from Georgia in the mid 1920s. As my grandmother described it to me before she passed, my grandfather came North first looking for work and she came later by train with her two oldest boys, Lee and Frederick, my namesake, after my grandfather found work first with the railroad and later as a laborer for the City of Springfield. Their other two kids, Alton and the youngest, Jeanette, my mother, were born in Springfield. Eventually, all of my grandparent’s siblings left Georgia, some for New Jersey, some for New York and Detroit and some, as my grandmother told it, for places unknown. ....