(julius caesar)

J. C. Watts, Jr., the first African-American Republican elected to Congress from a southern state since Reconstruction, shares the story of his life, discussing his upbringing in a strongly Democratic family and community, the factors that led him to switch to the Republican Party, and his career as a politician.

Follows the life of J. C. Watts, who played professional football, served as a Baptist minister, and became the first Republican African-American to be elected to Congress from Oklahoma.

A biography of the African-American who began life in a poor, black neighborhood in Eufaula, Oklahoma, in 1957, and went on to become a United States congressman.