WASHINGTON _ To those unversed in South Carolina politics and civic life, she was the wife of 58 years to Democrat Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American in Congress.
To everyone else, she was known, with great reverence, as Ms. Emily _ a driving force behind her husband's political rise, a civil rights demonstrator who went to jail for her activism and a fixture in the community in her own right.
Emily England Clyburn _ who died Thursday morning, at the age of 80 _ was a longtime librarian who helped raise tens of thousands of dollars to help students afford college.
