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Monday Floyd was a carpenter and elected State Representative, who served in the Georgia House of Representatives during the Reconstruction Era after the American Civil War. As one of several emancipated African Americans who were elected to public office, after former slaves were granted the franchise, Floyd faced considerable resistance. He reportedly receiving a threatening note from the Ku Klux Klan promising that there would be no more "Negro" legislators in Georgia, and ordering him to leave town.
Elected in 1868, he was among the 25 of 29 African American legislators in Georgia who were blocked from taking office. After federal intervention he was able to be seated after the 1870 election. In December 1870 he was threatened and shot, while at in his home in Madison, Georgia, by the Ku Klux Klan. Three days later the Klan returned and Floyd fled to Atlanta.