19th century congressman, Jon Voight, lunch, Mississippi.
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Congressman John Roy Lynch (R-MS), author of “The Facts of Reconstruction,” a foundational text that set the record straight on the lie that Black people didn’t participate in their own emancipation; 1st Black Speaker of the House in Mississippi, and 1st elected Congressmen from Mississippi.
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