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Breaking Racial Barriers
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Blanche Kelso Bruce was born into slavery in 1841. But after the Civil War, his political success led to his being elected the first black man to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate in 1874. And his growing real-estate fortune helped launch him into the upper echelons of Washington, D.C. society. In The Senator and the Socialite, Lawrence Otis Graham tells the story of how Senator Bruce helped break many of the racial barriers of his time.
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