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Remembering a Pioneering Voice in American Civil Rights

He outlived the world that once tried to silence him. For 94 years, Bill Clay Sr. waged a quiet war against segregation, poverty, and power that never wanted to share. He didn’t just win elections; he remade St. Louis, brick by brick, law by law. Now, the first Black congressman from Missouri is gone — and the people who walked in his shadow are left asking what happens to the movem… Continues…