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Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator
Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator The Georgia pastor will be just the 11th Black U.S. senator. His victory came amid an attempt to delegitimize election results — a pattern for more than 150 years.
By Theodore R. Johnson
Illustration by Dakarai Akil
In late January 1870, the nation’s capital was riveted by a new arrival: the Mississippi legislator Hiram Rhodes Revels, who had traveled days by steamboat and train, forced into the “colored” sections by captains and conductors, en route to becoming the first Black United States senator. Not long after his train pulled in to the New Jersey Avenue Station, Revels, wearing a black suit and a neat beard beneath cheekbones fresh from a shave, was greeted by a rhapsodic Black public. There were lunches with leading civil rights advocates; daily congratulatory visits from as many as 50 men at the Capitol Hill home where he was the guest of a prominent Black Republican; and exclusive interracial soirees hosted by Black businessmen, including the president of the Freedman’s Savings Bank.
GeorgiaUnited-statesNew-yorkNevadaNorth-carolinaMissouriMethodist-churchPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaWashingtonAtlantaDelawareJames Flug, a Washington lawyer and hard-driving aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who helped defeat two of Nixon’s Supreme Court nominees and spearheaded the first Senate investigation into the Watergate scandal, died Dec. 9 at his home in the District. He was 81.
The cause was lymphoma, said his daughter Amanda Flug Davidoff.
Mr. Flug came to Washington in 1963, clerking for a federal appeals court judge after graduating from Harvard Law School. He spent his career enmeshed in national politics, working as chief counsel to Kennedy (D-Mass.) on the Judiciary Committee; executive director of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association; head of Energy Action, a public-interest group that battled the oil industry; and as Washington counsel to generic drugmakers.
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