FILE - Former Democratic speaker Pro-Tem Robert Clark smiles as he in congratulated by well wishers for overcoming barriers 50 years ago to become Mississippi's first black legislator since Reconstruction at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss. Aug. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - Robert Clark, former Speaker Pro-Tem of the Mississippi House, right, speaks at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, June 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - House Appropriations Chairman Charlie Capps, D-Cleveland, right, and Speaker Pro-Tem Robert Clark, D-Lexington, review departmental budgets Sept. 8, 1999 in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis, File)
FILE - Former state Rep. Robert Clark speaks with reporters prior to the Friends of Mississippi Civil Rights gala Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 in Jackson, Miss., where he was one of five civil rights veterans honored. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
FILE - Former Speaker Pro-Tem Robert Clark speaks at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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FILE - Former Democratic speaker Pro-Tem Robert Clark smiles as he in congratulated by well wishers for overcoming barriers 50 years ago to become Mississippi's first black legislator since Reconstruction at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss. Aug. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
