|
|
|
|
PART I: FORMER BLACK MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
|
More
|
|
|
|
Chapter I: “The Fifteenth Amendment in Flesh and Blood”: The Symbolic Generation of Black...
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Former Members 1870 - 1887
|
More
|
|
|
|
Hiram Rhodes Revels
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Joseph Hayne Rainey
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Jefferson Franklin Long
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Robert Carlos De Large
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Robert Brown Elliott
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Benjamin Sterling Turner
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Josiah Thomas Walls
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Richard Harvey Cain
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
John Roy Lynch
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Alonzo Jacob Ransier
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
James Thomas Rapier
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Blanche Kelso Bruce
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Jeremiah Haralson
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
John Adams Hyman
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Charles Edmund Nash
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
James Edward O’Hara
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Chapter II: “The Negroes’ Temporary Farewell”: Jim Crow and the Exclusion of African Americans...
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Former Members 1887 - 1929
|
More
|
|
|
|
Henry Plummer Cheatham
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
John Mercer Langston
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Thomas Ezekiel Miller
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
George Washington Murray
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
George Henry White
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Chapter III: Keeping the Faith: African Americans Return to Congress, 1929–1970
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Former Members 1929 - 1970
|
More
|
|
|
|
Oscar Stanton De Priest
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Arthur Wergs Mitchell
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
William Levi Dawson
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Charles Coles Diggs, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Sr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Edward William Brooke III
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Shirley A. Chisholm
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
William Lacy (Bill) Clay, Sr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
George Washington Collins
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Chapter IV: Permanent Interests: The Expansion, Organization, and Rising Influence of African...
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Former Members 1971- 2007
|
More
|
|
|
|
Ronald V. Dellums
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Ralph Harold Metcalfe
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Parren James Mitchell
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Walter Edward Fauntroy
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Barbara Jordan
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Cardiss Collins
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Harold Eugene Ford, Sr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Julian Carey Dixon
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Melvin Herbert Evans
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
William Herbert Gray III
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
George Thomas (Mickey) Leland
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Bennett McVey Stewart
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
George William Crockett, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Harold Washington
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Katie Beatrice Hall
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Major Robert Odell Owens
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Alan Dupree Wheat
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Charles Arthur Hayes
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Alton R. Waldon, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Floyd Harold Flake
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Craig Anthony Washington
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Barbara-Rose Collins
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Gary A. Franks
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Lucien Edward Blackwell
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Eva M. Clayton
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Earl Frederick Hilliard
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Cynthia Ann McKinney
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Carrie P. Meek
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Carol Moseley-Braun
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Walter R. Tucker III
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Victor O. Frazer
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Julius Caesar (J. C.) Watts, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Juanita Millender-McDonald
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Julia May Carson
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Harold Ford, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Frank W. Ballance, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Denise L. Majette
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
PART II: CURRENT BLACK MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
|
More
|
|
|
|
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
G. K. Butterfield
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Donna M. Christensen
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
William L. Clay, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Emanuel Cleaver II
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
James E. Clyburn
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
John Conyers, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Elijah E. Cummings
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Danny K. Davis
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Alcee Hastings
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Sheila Jackson Lee
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
William J. Jefferson
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Eddie Bernice Johnson
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Kendrick B. Meek
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Gregory W. Meeks
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Gwendolynne S. (Gwen) Moore
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Eleanor Holmes Norton
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Donald M. Payne
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Charles B. Rangel
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Robert C. Scott
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Bennie Thompson
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Edolphus Towns
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Diane Edith Watson
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Melvin L. Watt
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Albert R. Wynn
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix A: First-Term Black-American Members of the 110th Congress
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix B: Black-American Representatives and Senators by Congress, 1870–2007
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix C: Black-American Representatives and Senators by State and Territory
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix D: Black-American Members’ Committee Assignments (Standing, Joint, Select) in the U.S...
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix E: Black Americans Who Have Chaired Congressional Committees, 1877–2007
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix F: Black-American Chairs of Subcommittees of Standing Committees in the U.S. House and...
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix G: Black Americans in Party Leadership Positions, 1977–2007
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix H: Black-American Familial Connections in Congress
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix I: Congressional Black Caucus Chairmen and Chairwomen, 1971–2007
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
Appendix J: Constitutional Amendments and Major Civil Rights Acts of Congress Referenced in the Text
|
PDF |
More
|
|
|
|
