Meet America's Most Influential Black Congressman (1971) w/ Marion Orr

<p>It's December 11th. This day in 1971, Representative Charles C Diggs of Michigan resigned from a UN delegation in order to protest the US stance towards South Africa's apartheid regime.</p><p>Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by Dr. Marion Orr of Brown University to discuss Diggs's decades-long fight to oppose apartheid, and his long tenure in Congress, where he built bridges and worked the halls of power. He was also brought down by a corruption scandal in the late 1970s, for which he might best be remembered.</p><p>Marion Orr's new book is called "<a href="https://uncpress.org/9781469689326/house-of-diggs/"><strong>House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.</strong></a>" It's out now!</p><p><strong>Sign up for our newsletter!</strong> We’ll be sending out links to all the stuff we recommended later this week.</p><p>Find out more at <a href="http://thisdaypod.com/"><strong>thisdaypod.com</strong></a></p><p>This Day In E...