RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Who was Blanche Bruce?
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a leader and founding member of the Ku Klux Klan
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a presidential candidate from the Republican Party
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the first African American politician to serve in Congress
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the founder of the first school for African American children
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Born a slave on a plantation in Prince Edward County, Va., Bruce ran away to Kansas at the beginning of the Civil War. As a fugitive slave in Lawrence, Kansas, he founded a school for Black children. In 1864 he moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where he started the state’s first school for African Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -In February 1874, Bruce was elected to the U.S. Senate, the second African American to serve in the upper house of Congress. On February 14, 1879, Bruce presided over the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American (and the only former slave) to have done so.
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