1875: A senator is sworn in and a dynasty begins
1841-1861: Blanche Bruce's slave family in Virginia and Missouri
1841-1860: The free aristocratic family of Josephine Wilson
1862-1870: Bruce finds Kansas freedom, Ohio education, and Mississippi reconstruction
1870-1874: Bruce builds a base of power in Mississippi and is elected to the U.S. Senate
1877-1878: A senator and a socialite Marry despite family and class conflicts
1878: A Black dynasty begins
1879-1880: A new child and a new redemption congress
1880-1888: Bruce leaves the Senate, joins the Treasury Department, then enters private life
1889-1895: Bruce persuades President Harrison to give him a job and his wife gains her independence
1895-1898: The senator gets appointed by President McKinley as his son breaks barriers at Phillips Exeter; the senator dies
March 1898-June 1902: The senator's son begins a courtship at Harvard, and the senator's widow carries out a legacy
1902: Roscoe builds an alliance with Booker T. Washington
1902: A marriage of the second generation, and life in Tuskegee
December 1903-1906: Roscoe and Clara build the next generation
1906-1914: A triumphant return to Washington life: the Bruce family's second generation emerges
1915-1922: Roscoe's downfall in Washington
1923-1924: Roscoe struggles with Harvard's President, his family finances, and his children's success
1925-1929: The family moves to Cambridge and New York, and Roscoe builds an alliance with John D. Rockefeller Jr.
1930-1939: The third generation makes news, and the senator's grandson goes to prison
1940-1967: The third Bruce generation erases a proud history.
