Question: From which state was the father of the first black woman elected to represent Georgia in the House?

Context articles: Euzhan Palcy
Ruby M. Rouss
Mercedes Deiz
Cynthia McKinney
Billy McKinney (politician)
Eugénie Éboué-Tell
Josephine Silone Yates
Margaret Carter
Shirley Chisholm
Zanana Akande

Euzhan Palcy is a film director, writer and producer from Martinique, French West Indies.
 She is notable for being the first black woman director produced by a major Hollywood studio (MGM), for "A Dry White Season", as well as being the only woman filmmaker to have directed Marlon Brando, whom she brought back to the screen after a gap of nine years.
 Palcy is the first black director (male or female) to direct an actor to an Oscar nomination and the first black director to win a César Award, the highest French film award.
 She is also the first black director to win of a Venice Film Festival Award (Silver Lion).
Ruby M. Rouss (1921–1988) was an American citizen born on Saint Croix in the US Virgin Islands.
 Her career was marked by a series of firsts.
 She was the first Virgin Islander in the Women's Army Corps (WAC), first African American woman to serve on General Eisenhower’s staff, and first black woman assigned as a permanent staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.
 After a 20-year military career, she retired from service and became the first woman parole officer in St. Croix.
 In 1973, she was elected as one of the first women to serve in the Virgin Island's legislature.
 In 1981, Rouss served as the first female President of the Virgin Islands Legislature, becoming the first black woman to lead a legislature in the United States.
 She was elected to serve a second presidency of the Senate in 1987 and died the following year.
 Posthumously, she was inducted into the Virgin Island's Women's Hall of Fame and a housing project in St. Croix was renamed in her honor.
Mercedes Deiz (December 13, 1917 – October 5, 2005) was an American lawyer.
 She became the first black woman to practice law in Oregon, and was also the first black woman to serve as a district court judge and the first to be elected as a county circuit court judge.
Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician and activist based in Georgia.
 As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms in the United States House of Representatives.
 She was the first black woman elected to represent Georgia in the House.
 She left the Democratic Party and in 2008, ran as the Presidential candidate of the Green Party of the United States.
James Edward "Billy" McKinney (February 23, 1927 – July 15, 2010) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia.
 Although McKinney served as a Democrat in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1983 until 2002, he ran as an Independent for Congress after that time.
 In 2008 he joined the Green Party and cast delegate votes for their Presidential nominee.
 McKinney was the father of Cynthia McKinney, former United States Representative from Georgia and Green party Presidential candidate.
Eugenie Eboue-Tell (November 23, 1891 in Cayenne, French Guiana – November 20, 1972 in Pontoise, France) was a politician from French Guiana who was elected to the French Senate in 1946 and reelected in 1948.
 She was the first black woman elected to the French National Assembly.
Josephine Silone Yates (1852 or November 15, 1859 – September 3, 1912), trained in chemistry, was one of the first black teachers hired at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, and, upon her promotion, the first black woman to head a college science department.
 She may have been the first black woman to hold a full professorship at any U.S. college or university.
Margaret L. Carter (born December 29, 1935) is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1999 and 2001 to 2009 and was the first black woman elected to the state's legislature.
 She served in the Oregon House of Representatives until 1999, and then in the Oregon State Senate from 2001 to 2009.
 She served as President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Vice Chair for Ways and Means, and as a member of both the Health and Human Services and Oregon State Hospital Patient Care committees.
 She announced her resignation from the Senate effective August 31, 2009, and took a post as Deputy Director for Human Services Programs at the Oregon Department of Human Services.
 In 2015, she was reportedly considering a return to the senate.
Shirley Anita Chisholm (née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author.
 In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, and she represented New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.
 In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Zanana Lorraine Akande (born  1937 ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.
 She was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1994 who represented the downtown Toronto riding of St. Andrew—St. Patrick.
 She served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae.
 She was the first black woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and the first black woman to serve as a cabinet minister in Canada.