“In Jackson Jr. Story, Politico’s Isenstadt ‘Forgets’ There Were Five Black Congressmen Before Chicagoan Oscar De Priest”
There were more than five black Congressmen before DePriest—those listed are all post-Reconstruction. There were a bunch of black Republicans in Congress in the Reconstruction era (maybe 16 in all, don’t remember the exact number) including a couple of Senators (one of them holding the seat previously occupied by Jefferson Davis).