Some said that while on the stump, Bilbo seemed ten feet tall. Yet, Theodore G. Bilbo was also one of the most virulent racists ever to sit in the United States Senate. In spite of his violent racism, ...
LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi's first Black lawmaker of the 20th century ...
Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as ... They were standing near a statue of the late Theodore Bilbo, an arch-segregationist who had served as Mississippi governor and U.S. senator, when ...