This 1962 cartoon by Clifford H. "Baldy" Baldowski comments on the election of Leroy Johnson to the Georgia legislature. The overturn of Georgia’s county unit system resulted in the creation of a predominantly Black senate district in Fulton County. Leroy Johnson, a prominent attorney and advisor to Atlanta’s civil rights movement, won the seat in 1962 and became the first African American to serve in the legislature since 1907. He was also the first African American elected to public office in the Southeast that year.
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