The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Black men’s rights to suffrage and to serve in the United States Congress were established only after the Union ...

“History not taught,” it says. “The first 23 Black congressmen were Republican.” “You won’t be taught this,” wrote Ryan Fournier, the co-chair of Students for Trump, whose watermark ...

The first Black men elected to Congress took ... immigrants came from this time" and a number of those early Black congressmen were involved in creating laws to protect Chinese immigrants, among ...

Clyburn, a Democrat first elected to Congress in 1992, is the first Black to represent South Carolina in the House of Representatives ... and conditions that were made legal by state and federal ...

In 1992, Clyburn became the first Black to represent South Carolina in the House of Representatives since the 1890s.