- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Rocking chair
- Date of Original:
- 1800/1900
- Subject:
- African American legislators--Georgia--History--19th century
Furniture--Georgia
Rocking chairs--Georgia - People:
- Long, Jefferson Franklin, 1836-1901
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- rocking chairs
wood
chairs - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Rocking chair.
This wooden rocking chair was owned by Jefferson Franklin Long. Born into slavery in Alabama in 1836, Jefferson Long was Georgia's first African American congressman elected in 1870, and the first African American to speak on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. After Long left Congress in 1871, more than one hundred years would pass before Andrew Young became the second African American from Georgia to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1972.
Gift of Dorothy Douglass to the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm07292011-157
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm07292011-157
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 rocking chair : wood ; 94 x 67 x 81 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
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