Making History: Tim Scott Now Longest-Serving Black Senator
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has made history Friday. Scott became the longest-serving African American in the 235-year history of the United States Senate. Scott, the first elected Black senator from the South, was the…
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has made history Friday.
Scott became the longest-serving African American in the 235-year history of the United States Senate. Scott, the first elected Black senator from the South, was the first to serve in both chambers of Congress — the House of Representatives and the Senate, per ABC News.
African Americans gained the right to vote through the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The late Republican Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.) was the previous longest-serving Black senator. He was in office from 1967 until 1979.
“As we begin the 119th Congress, Senate