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Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi who was born a slave, but was the first Negro to become a member of the United States Senate

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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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My larger education; being chapters from my experience.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Politicians
  2. African Americans
  3. Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841 1898
  4. Legislators
  5. Mississippi

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