Edward Brooke was the first African-American to be elected to the Senate since Reconstruction,when, 85 years earlier, and Mississippi’s Blanche Bruce would not be reappointed to his Senate seat. The year was 1966 and the area was Massachusetts and Brooke captured the seat of retiring Senator Leverett Saltonstall in an electorate that was just 3 percent black. That wasn’t the […]
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