May 21, 1881, marks the day that Blanche Bruce appointed Register of the Treasury after serving as Mississippi's U.S. Senator. Bruce was born in slavery in March 1841 on a Virginia plantation. His father was slaveholder Pettis Perkinson. LIFE PRIOR TO POLITICS He would receive an education by his father and eventually freed. During the […]
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