August 10, 2017
Former Mississippi House Speaker Pro Tem Robert Clark was honored on the 50th anniversary of becoming the first African American Mississippian elected to the Legislature since Reconstruction.
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Democrats, Republicans Honor Robert Clark's 'Striving and Working' Legacy
In the midst of Mississippi's turbulent reckoning with the Civil Rights Movement, Holmes County residents elected Robert G. Clark to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1967. He was the …
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