Why Raphael Warnock was elected Georgia's first black US senator
by Peter Beaumont from US news | The Guardian on (#5CF9G)
Analysis: Political rise of preacher who took up mantle of earlier civil rights activists has coincided with changes in state
When Raphael Warnock was born, the state of Georgia was represented in the Senate by two segregationists - one of them, Herman Talmadge, a southern Democrat who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
Today, Warnock, a senior preacher at the Ebenezer Baptist church, where Martin Luther King Jr once preached, has been elected the first African American Democratic senator from a formerly Confederate state.
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