1922–2012
Biography · Politics
Blanche K. Bruce
1841–1898
United States
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Biography
Bruce, formerly enslaved, represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate from 1875 to 1881 and championed civil rights and fair treatment of Reconstruction-era Black communities.
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1924–2005
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