Remembering a Pioneering Voice in American Civil Rights

did not begin as “Congressman Clay.” He began as a young man in a city that told him where he could live, where he could work, where he could sit. Organizing buses, boycotts, and union halls, he turned anger into strategy and fear into votes. When he finally walked into Congress in 1969, he carried with him not just a district, but decades of pent-up continue reading …