Joseph Rainey quote.
I tell you that the Negro will never rest until he gets his rights. We ask [for civil rights] because we know it is proper not because we want to deprive any other class of the rights and immunities they enjoy, but because they are granted to us by the law of the land.
Portrait of the first Black federally elected legislators, Library of Congress.
Members of the Alabama Reconstruction Legislature on the steps of the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama
digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/6285
