Robert G. Clark's Journey to the House

This biographical profile written by one of the South's most notable authors traces the life of Robert George Clark Jr. (1928-2025) from his Jim Crow boyhood in Ebenezer, Mississippi, through his notable career as the first Black Mississippian since Reconstruction to be elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. In this compelling book Will D. Campbell fuses Clark's family history with his political career and tells of Clark's struggle with segregationists, his powerful influence in th