volumes that Bruce was the only Afrikan American to serve a full term in the Senate for almost a hundred years, until the election of Edward Brooke from Massachusetts in 1966, then Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois (the first black woman) in 1992, and Barack Obama of Illinois in 2004. Mr. Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009. Unfortunately, the Reconstruction period also saw the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group founded in 1866 by Confederate
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