# Blanche Kelso Bruce Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/blanche-kelso-bruce Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/blanche-kelso-bruce.md Podcast: [WORT 89.9FM Madison](https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612) Published: 2026-05-18T18:30:17+00:00 Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/wort-fm/blanche-kelso-bruce Audio file: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2323147277-wort-fm-blanche-kelso-bruce.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/episodes/blanche-kelso-bruce Duration seconds: 311 ## Resource The Past Isn’t Past Harry Richardson recalls Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African-American elected to the US Senate to fill out the full term, elected by the Mississippi legislature in 1875 Image Source: Library of Congress. https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpbh.05070/ ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/episodes/blanche-kelso-bruce/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/blanche-kelso-bruce.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.