Shunned by colleagues at first, he became a political force in the state. By Adam Nossiter Robert G. Clark Jr., who became the first Black person to sit in the Mississippi State Legislature since ...

Robert Clark was the highest ranking Black man in Mississippi government. Robert G. Clark, Mississippi’s first Black House representative elected after the Civil Rights Movement, died on March 4 ...

THERE FOR THE SERVICE. >> ROBERT JUNIOR WAS MY HERO. >> A MASS OF PEOPLE SURROUNDED THE CASKET OF LATE ROBERT CLARK JUNIOR IN HIS HOMETOWN OF LEXINGTON. THE 96 YEAR OLD, REMEMBERED AS THE FIRST BLACK ...

Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi's first Black lawmaker of the 20th century and rose to the second-highest leadership role in the state House of Representatives, died ...