Voters and Officeholders

"I have heard of Negroes voting and holding office after the War. I

wasn't acquainted with any of them except a man named Kane Gibbs and

another named Cicero Barnes. I heard the old people talking about them.

I don't know what offices they held. They lived in another county

somewhere.

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