Category : Politics

Michelle Obama, née Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, (born January 17, 1964, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American first lady (2009–17), the wife of Barack Obama, 44th president of...

Douglas Wilder was the first African American to win statewide office in Virginia, and to be elected governor in the U.S. In 1969, Douglas Wilder...

Pinckney Benton Steward Pinchback, often referred to as P.B.S. Pinchback was an influential figure in American politics and civil rights during the Reconstruction Era. His...

Harold Washington (1922-1987) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 51st mayor of Chicago from 1983 until his death in 1987. He...

Carl B. Stokes, lawyer, anchorman, U.S. diplomat and the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, was born on June 21, 1927, to...

Robert Brown Elliott, Reconstruction-era Congressman, was born in 1842 in Liverpool, England. He attended High Holborn Academy in London, England and then studied law, graduating...

A wealthy resident of Charleston, South Carolina, Robert De Large won election to the U.S. House of Representatives as an ally of the scandal-ridden administration...

John R. Lynch, (born Sept. 10, 1847, Concordia Parish, La., U.S.—died Nov. 2, 1939, Chicago, Ill.), black politician after the American Civil War who served...

Melvin Herbert (Mel) Evans was born in Christiansted, St. Croix, on August 7, 1917, soon after the United States purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark....