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October 30, 2023
In an unlikely success story, he rose from poverty in the segregated South to build relationships with powerful politicians.
October 26, 2023
Bertie Bowman, the son of South Carolina sharecroppers who arrived at the U.S. Capitol in 1944 as a 13-year-old runaway, got a $2-a-week job sweeping the building’s steps, and then became the longest-serving African American congressional aide in history, died Oct. 25. He was 92.
October 26, 2023
Bertie Bowman, the son of South Carolina sharecroppers who arrived at the U.S. Capitol in 1944 as a 13-year-old runaway, got a $2-a-week job sweeping the buildings steps, and then