The longest serving African-American elected official in Mississippi, Rep. Bennie Thompson started his political career just four years after the Civil Rights Act of 1965 granted him access to his local government.
"I am from a part of the country where people justified the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. I'm reminded of that dark history as I hear voices today try and justify the actions of insurrectionists on Jan. 6, 2021," he said.that he felt called to his work with the committee -- in service of a country that had not always served him.
Chairman Bennie Thompson returns to the hearing room after a break during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol hearing in Washington, D.C., June 16, 2022.Now well into his 13th term as a representative for Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District, Thompson began his career as an activist at Tugaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi.
. "Whenever we used to ask him to see help from outside, he would always say, 'We don't need any help—everything's fine here.'"
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