Saundra Brown Armstrong
On June 21, 1991, President Bush appointed Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong to the United States District Court. With her appointment, she became the first African-American...
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Ebenezer D. Bassett
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Ebenezer D. Bassett was appointed U.S. Minister Resident to Haiti in 1869, making him the first African American diplomat. For eight years, the educator, abolitionist,...
Patricia Roberts Harris
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Patricia Roberts Harris was a trailblazing figure in American politics and law. Born on May 31, 1924, in Mattoon, Illinois, Harris went on to become...
Condoleezza Rice
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Condoleezza Rice is one of the most prominent and influential figures in American politics and foreign policy. She has served as the national security adviser...
Colin Powell
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Colin Powell, in full Colin Luther Powell, (born April 5, 1937, New York, New York, U.S.), U.S. general and statesman. He was chairman of the...
Fair Housing Act of 1968
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Fair Housing Act, also called Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, is U.S. federal legislation that protects individuals and families from discrimination...
Edward William Brooke III
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Edward William Brooke III was the first African American to be elected by popular vote to the United States Senate. Brooke, an African American, Protestant...
George Edwin Taylor
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Born in the pre-Civil War South to a mother who was free and a father who was enslaved, George Edwin Taylor became the first African...
Dr. Carolyn L. Robertson Payton
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Dr. Carolyn L. Robertson Payton, born May 13, 1925, in Norfolk, Virginia, was a trailblazer as the first African American and first woman to serve...
Joseph Hayne Rainey
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In 1870 Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey became the first African American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives and take his seat. ...