The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation -- Jim Clyburn, Hardcover

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The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation -- Jim Clyburn, HardcoverFrom one of America's most venerable politicians, the powerful, untold story of the pioneering Black congressmen from South Carolina who were elected in the aftermath of the Civil War, revealing why it took nearly a century before the ninth, James Clyburn, was elected. Today, South Carolina congressman James E. Clyburn is renowned as a Democratic kingmaker and our nation's most august Black political leader. But behind him stand eight other remarkable

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