For this special Election Day episode, Doug looks back at Hiram Rhodes Revels and Blanche Kelso Bruce, two Republicans from Mississippi who became the first two Black U.S. senators in the nation's history.
He uses their stories to encourage listeners to vote, not only in the midterms but in local races too.
Along the way, he covers how Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments widened citizenship and voting rights.