If you think the answer to your own question is Edward Brooks (R-Mass.), you’re wrong.
Bump for tomorrow.
Edward Brooke.
Nope, Brooke, no s, was black, and the first black person to be elected to the senate after the amendment took effect. All the other black senators were appointed by their state legislators.
Yulee is not “black” in terms of skin color, though he is “African-American”.