Mary Groves Bland
Mary Groves Bland dedicated more than two decades of her life to serving the people of Missouri as a Democratic representative in the State Legislature....
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Loretta Lynch
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Loretta Lynch, in full Loretta Elizabeth Lynch, (born May 21, 1959, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.), an American lawyer who was the first African American woman...
Sharon Pratt Dixon
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Sharon Pratt Dixon was born on January 30, 1944, in Washington, D.C. to parents Carlisle Pratt and Mildred (Petticord) Pratt. Carlisle was a Washington, D.C....
Kurt L. Schmoke
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Kurt L. Schmoke, born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1949, came from a middle-class background. His father, Murray, a civilian chemist for the U.S. Army, was...
Roland Wallace Burris
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On January 15, 2009, Roland Wallace Burris was sworn in as the U.S. Senator from Illinois. Burris’s appointment made him the third African American U.S....
Woodrow Wilson Goode
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Best known as the first African American Mayor of Philadelphia, Woodrow Wilson Goode was born in 1938 into a family of tenant farmers near the...
Richard Arrington
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Richard Arrington, the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, was born in Livingston, Alabama on October 19, 1934, to sharecroppers. He received a Bachelor’s...
Willie L. Brown, Jr.
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Political leader The Honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr. was born on March 20, 1934, in Mineola, Texas to Minnie Collins Boyd and Willie Lewis Brown,...
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Eleanor Holmes Norton, née Eleanor Holmes, (born June 13, 1937, Washington, D.C., U.S.), American lawyer and politician who broke several gender and racial barriers during...
Wentworth Cheswell
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Wentworth Cheswell (11 April 1746 – 8 March 1817) was an African-American teacher, coroner, scrivener, assessor, auditor, moderator, selectman and Justice Of The Peace. He was the only...