Tag: Edward W. Brooke

  • Bridging the Divide: My Life Rutgers University Press 2006-11-09 352 pages 16, 5.75 x 8.75 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3905-8 Senator Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015) President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts-a state…

  • Edward Brooke, first black elected U.S. senator, dies at 95 USA Today 2015-01-03 Natalie DiBlasio Former Massachusetts U.S. senator Edward Brooke, the first African American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, has died at age 95. Ralph Neas, a former aide, said Brooke died Saturday of natural causes at his home in…

  • Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95 The New York Times 2015-01-03 Douglas Martin Edward W. Brooke III, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts, died on Saturday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla.…

  • From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama African American Political Success, 1966-2008 University of Missouri Press 2012 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8262-1977-0 Dennis Nordin In 2008, American history was forever changed with the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. However, Obama was far from the first African American…