Born in Kentucky

He promoted the passage of the 13th amendment

He was the tallest president at 6'4

born in Fayetteville, North Carolina

He was the first African American to serve in the US Senate from 1870–71, representing Mississippi

He was born of free parents and traveled to Indiana and Illinois in order to receive the education that was denied to him in the South.

Born in Talbot County,Maryland

Douglass's chosen last name was inspired by a character in the Sir Walter Scott poem "Lady of the Lake."

Relentless advocacy for rights of African Americans, which included supporting the reconstruction Amendment (13th, 14th, 15th).

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Born in Raleigh, North Carolina.

He was the only senator from a seceding state that remained in the United states Senate.

Under Johnson's plan, rebellious states would required to repeal their secession ordinances have 10 percent of their population take loyalty

born in Georgetown, South Carolina

He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1870 and was reelected four times, the longest tenure of any Black politician during the Reconstruction era.

He was the son of a barber and his dad bought the family’s freedom.

Born in Danville, Vermont

He was a US Radical Republican and a leader in Congress during the Reconstruction. He battled for freedmen’s rights and insisted on stern requirements for readmission of Southern states into the Union.

He requested that he be buried among Negroes resting in a cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania so that even in death he could support the principal, “Equality of man before his Creator.”

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Born in Wilton, New York

He was a two-term President of the United States and general during the American Civil War.

He supported the rights of African Americans. Although he supported Reconstruction, his administration was often ineffective

Born In Beaufort, North Carolina

He served multiple terms (1875–79, 1882–83, and 1884–87) as a Congressman from South Carolina during the Reconstruction.

He was a slave and forced to work on the steamship CSS Planter during the war. He gained his freedom for taking over the ship and turning it over to Union officers and Smalls became famous as a war hero throughout the North.

Born In New Lebanon, N.Y.

He played a prominent role in the reorganization of the Democratic Party, serving as the party chairman of New York State.

He played a major role in the overthrow of the notorious Tweed Ring. This was a circle of corrupt politicians who had embezzled an estimated $30,000,000–$200,000,000 from New York City.

Born in Delaware, Ohio

He had guided the nation through the maelstrom of civil War and the Reconstruction policy and politics

He won the Ohio governorship for the republican party in a year when the republicans nationally fared poorly at the polls

Born in Savannah, Georgia

She opened a school for free blacks but closed it after her husband died at the end of 1866. Then she operated a school in Liberty Country, Georgia in 1867-1868 but returned to Savannah in late 1868 to open a night school.

She bravely helped both black and white soldiers as a nurse during the Civil War.

Born in Ulster county, New York

She worked with the National Freedmen’s Relief Association counseling formerly enslaved people, particularly in matters of resettlement.

Her legal name was Isabella Van Wagener, and her first language was Dutch.