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Massachusetts
I reverted your deletion of text from the Massachusetts article for the following reasons:

The proper way to put referenced, relevant information into a separate section is to create that section, not to delete the material.

Brooke was the first "popularly elected" African American senator. The Reconstruction era African American senators were chosen by state legislators as was the procedure at the time. As phrased, the information in the text is accurate.

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