Former US Representative John Conyers (D-MI) was first elected to Congress in 1964. Conyers was well known for introducing HR 40, the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, in 1989. HR 40 did not pass, although Conyers continued to reintroduce the bill until he retired five decades later. Conyers had been a … Continued
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