By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) - He was the son of a sharecropper who came to be known as the “conscience of the Congress” and has been described by a list of other heroic terms: From the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who called him the “founding father of American Democracy” to President Barack Obama’s description saying […]
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