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Article: The first Black elected governor: L. Douglas Wilder makes history with his election to Virginia's top post.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- February 1, 1990
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The First Black Elected Governor
IN VIRGINIA, the story is infamous. Since election day 1989--the day L. Douglas Wilder made history by becoming the country's first elected Black governor--it has become political legend.
It was 1982, and even though then Virginia state Senator Wilder had made history 13 years earlier by becoming the first Black legislator to serve in the state Senate since Reconstruction, he was still an outsider to Virginia's political aristocracy. Wilder may have been a senator, but he was a Black senator.
And so when he went to lunch with some powerful Democratic colleagues at the Commonwealth Club, the hallowed temple of ...