“My grandfather “suffered the indignity of being forced out of school as a third-grader to pick cotton, and never learned to read or write. … Our family went from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.”
What Washington Post found
Against heavy odds, Scott’s ancestors amassed relatively large areas of farmland, a mark of distinction in the Black community at the time.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tim Scott (Senator (R-S.C.)) made this claim around 24 August 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 April 2021, 242 days later. Its rating was “Not the whole story”.
Tim Scott has 15 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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