The last African American to run for senate in South Carolina did so in 1866. A hundred and fifty years on, and Alvin Greene, a 32-year-old US army veteran, has a chance to make it on to Capitol Hill as only the fifth black Senator since Reconstruction (three of the previous four African-American senators were elected in one state, Illinois).
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