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 ...

The novel, titled “The First Eight,” will detail the lives and work of eight Black congressmen in South Carolina ... circumstances 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.

For the first time, two Black people were nominated to be speaker of the House of Representatives. Conservatives opposed to Kevin McCarthy nominated Rep. Byron Donalds on the 4th ballot on Wednesday.

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 ...