America's Black congressmen.

Covers Hiram R. Revels, Blanche K. Bruce, Joseph H. Rainey, Jefferson F. Long, Robert Smalls, John R. Lynch, Robert Brown Elliott, Josiah T. Walls, Richard H. Cain, Robert C. DeLarge, Alonzo J. Ransier, Charles E. Nash, P. B. S. Pinchback, Thomas E. Miller, George W. Murray, Benjamin S. Turner, Jame...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christopher, Maurine
Language:English
Published: New York : Crowell, [1971]
Subjects:
African American legislators > Biography.
Legislators > United States.
African Americans > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xvi, 283 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Hiram R. Revels/Mississippi
  • Blanche K. Bruce/Mississippi
  • Joseph H. Rainey/South Carolina and Jefferson F. Long/Georgia
  • Robert Smalls/South Carolina
  • John R. Lynch/Mississippi
  • Robert Brown Elliott/South Carolina
  • Josiah T. Walls/Florida
  • Richard H. Cain/South Carolina
  • Robert C. DeLarge and Alonzo J. Ransier/South Carolina
  • Charles E. Nash and P. B. S. Pinchback/Louisiana
  • Thomas E. Miller and George W. Murray/South Carolina
  • Benjamin S. Turner, James T. Rapier, and Jeremiah Haralson/Alabama
  • John Mercer Langston/Virginia
  • John A. Hyman, James E. O'Hara, and Henry P. Cheatham/North Carolina
  • George H. White/North Carolina
  • Oscar DePriest/Illinois
  • Arthur W. Mitchell/Illinois
  • William L. Dawson/Illinois
  • Adam Clayton Powell, Jr./New York
  • Charles C. Diggs, Jr./Michigan
  • Robert N. C. Nix/Pennsylvania
  • Augustus F. Hawkins/California
  • Edward W. Brooke/Massachusetts
  • John Conyers, Jr./Michigan
  • Louis Stokes/Ohio
  • William L. Clay/Missouri
  • Shirley Chisholm/New York.