Hannah Diggs Atkins was the first black woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives. She served from 1968 to 1980. She was later appointed to the simultaneous positions of Secretary of State of Oklahoma and Secretary of Social Services, establishing her as the highest-ranked female in Oklahoma state government until she retired in 1991. […]

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