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Author Clyburn, James.

Title Blessed experiences : genuinely Southern, proudly Black / James E. Clyburn ; foreword by Alfre Woodard.

Publication Info. Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E840.8.C59 A3 2014    Available  ---
Description xix, 355 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
age Children
Note Includes index.
Contents Blessed by experiences -- A blessed beginning -- Finding my way -- The Charleston shuffle -- Making history -- A racial arbiter -- Coming to grips with reality -- The dream realized -- Mr. Clyburn goes to Washington -- Treading and toiling -- The age of Obama -- Blessed by the past.
Summary From his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina, to his prominence on the Washington, D.C., political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn has led an extraordinary life. He tells in his own inspirational words how an African American boy from the Jim Crow-era South was able to beat the odds to achieve great success and become, as President Barack Obama describes him, "one of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens."
Subject Clyburn, James.
Clyburn, James.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Legislators.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
United States. Congress. House.
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans.
South Carolina.
Genre/Form Biographies.
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