09 February 2013

Blanche Kelso Bruce.

Copyright © 2013 Bob R Bogle


I'm very happy this morning to discover that Blanche Kelso Bruce has family ties that connect him to Memphis Blues Again.  For those who doubt the existence of a vast, suppressed history, know that this half-black man was nominated for Vice-President of the United States in the Republican Party in 1880, 128 years before another half-black American attained the summit of the Executive branch.




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