Crystal Bird Fauset
Crystal Dreda Bird Fauset was a trailblazing civil rights activist, social worker, educator, and politician, renowned as the first African American woman elected to a...
Category : Politics
Pierre Caliste Landry
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Pierre Caliste Landry, a former slave turned educator and minister, is noted as the first African American to be elected mayor of a town in...
Ralph Bunche
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Ralph Bunche was an influential figure in the field of international relations and diplomacy. Born in 1904 in Detroit, Michigan, Bunche went on to become...
The Freedmen’s Bureau
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The Freedmen’s Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, was a groundbreaking federal agency established in the aftermath of the...
John Mercer Langston
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John Mercer Langston, the youngest of four children, was born a free black in Louisa County, Virginia in 1829. Langston gained distinction as an abolitionist,...
Matthias de Sousa
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Matthias de Sousa, an indentured servant, was the only black person to serve in the colonial Maryland legislature. As such he is the first African...
Carol Moseley Braun
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Carol Moseley Braun is a trailblazer in American politics. She made history in 1992 when she became the first African American woman elected to the...
Jefferson Franklin Long
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Jefferson Franklin Long was Georgia’s first African American congressman and the first black member to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives....
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was an American politician and civil rights activist who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from...
Adam Clayton Powell, Sr
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Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement and a trailblazer in the field of politics. His tireless efforts to...