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Cassandra Quin Butt is Deputy White House Counsel to President Barack Obama on issues relating to civil rights, domestic policy, healthcare, and education.  She brought seventeen years of experience in politics and policy to her position.  She is a long-time friend of the President, acting as an
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11
2001
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a former slave and human rights activist, as well as the first African American to hold a high ranking U.S. government position. He was born into slavery; the exact date of his birth is not known but it is estimated to be around 1818. He was raised by his maternal
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(1875) Congressman James T. Rapier, “Half Free, Half Slave”
On February 4, 1875, Congressman James T. Rapier of Alabama, rose on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Civil Right bill then before Congress which when enacted later that year became the Civil Rights Act of 1875.   His speech appears
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Fauntroy, Walter E. (1933- )
Reverend Walter E. Fauntroy, pastor, Congressional representative, and civil rights activist, was born in Washington, D.C., on February, 6, 1933. The son of Ethel Vines Fauntroy and William Thomas Fauntroy, who worked in the U.S. Patent Office, Walter Fauntroy graduated from Dunbar High School in
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Randolph, Asa Philip
Randolph, Asa Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader, b. Crescent City, Fla., attended the College of the City of New York. As a writer and editor of the black magazine The Messenger, which he helped to found, Randolph became interested in the labor movement. In 1917 he organized a small union of
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Lloyd G. Trotter
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Hastie, William Henry (1904-1976)
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Colin Powell
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Keyes, Alan L. (1950- )
A controversial and conservative Republican, Alan Lee Keyes has perhaps one of the most extensive resumes to date in public and political
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Diggs, Charles (1922–1998)
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COINTELPRO Memorandum
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Clifford Alexander Jr
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1976
Congressman William Gray
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Kenneth C. Frazier
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Garrett, Thomas
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Goode, Malvin Russell (1908–1995)
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Thurgood Marshall
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1993
Jackson-Lee, Sheila (1950 - )
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Abd el-Krim
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First Black Elected to the General Assembly
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1964
Coleman, John A.(1852- ? )
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Richardson, Laura (1962- )
Born in Los Angeles on April 14, 1962, to a black father and white mother, Laura Richardson is currently congresswoman for the 37th congressional district, serving her first term. Her mother, Maryann Richardson, who was a member of the Teamsters labor union, raised Richardson by
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Jordan, Mosina H. (1943- )
In 1995, career Foreign Service Officer Mosina H. Jordan was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve as ambassador to the Central African Republic (CAR). After U.S. Senate confirmation she arrived in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic and presented her credentials on November
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Jones, Stephanie Tubbs (1949-2008)
Currently in the political spotlight for her steadfast support of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Stephanie Tubbs Jones is a Democratic Representative of the state of Ohio. She was born on September 10, 1949 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and attended the county’s public schools
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Robinson, Max (1939-1988)
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