Dayton / Baltimore / New York / Atlanta / Chicago / /
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Harper’s Weekly / CBC / /
Country
South Africa / United States / Georgia / /
Event
Diplomatic Relations / Voting Result / /
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Library of Congress While / Morgan State University / Library of Congress / Library of Congress Keeping / /
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news media / food / energy / /
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SCLC / contraction / /
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Mississippi River / /
Organization
House of Representatives / New Deal / House / Senate / Baptist Church / Washington’s Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church / Ku Klux Klan / U.S. House / U.S. Congress / National Association for the Advancement of Colored People / Morgan State University / Committee on Education and Labor / Republican Party / Democratic Party / Fellow committee / Spingarn Research Center / United States Senate / Congress / federal government / federal legislature / Select Committee on Hunger / Howard University / /
Person
Ronald V. Dellums / Edmund Duffy / Eva Clayton / Charles Diggs / Jr. / Oscar De Priest / Jim Crow / Augustus (Gus) Hawkins / Shirley Chisholm / Louis Stokes / Barbara Jordan / Benjamin Quarles / Jeannette Rankin / Edward W. Brooke / James Clyburn / George W. Murray / Blanche Bruce / William Dawson / Corinne (Lindy) Boggs / Charles C. Diggs / Jr. / Charles Rangel / Walter Fauntroy / Caleb Hunt / James Mann / Yvonne Brathwaite Burke / John Langston / Andrew Young / Jr. / Andrew Young / Henry Highland Garnet / Robert Elliott / Richard Cain / Ralph Metcalfe / Luther King / Jr. / George Thomas (Mickey) Leland / John Willis Menard / Adam Clayton Powell / Jr. / John Hope Franklin / Arthur W. Mitchell / Martin Luther King / Jr. / Robert Nix / Sr. / Joseph Rainey / J. C. Watts / Harold Ford / Sr. / Hiram Revels / George Henry White / Carol Moseley-Braun / William H. (Bill) Gray III / /
Position
Clerk / cofounder / Democratic Majority Whip / Representative / personal representative / minister / Priest / Republican Conference Chairman / renowned AfricanAmerican historian / Senator / Governor / Chairman / first black politician / /
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Ohio / Virginia / Louisiana / Michigan / Chicagocentered / District of Columbia / Montana / South Carolina / Oklahoma / Mississippi / California / Georgia / Texas / Maryland / Illinois / Tennessee / South Chicago / Pennsylvania / North Carolina / Massachusetts / /
Black Americans in Congress An Introduction The arrival of Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi and Representative Joseph Rainey of South Carolina on Capitol Hill in 1870 ranks among the great paradoxes in American