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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: LindyBill who wrote (252519)5/31/2008 10:01:45 PM
From: goldworldnet   of 793778
 
Firsts in The United States - Black versus Female

1) Suffrage

Blacks - 1868 Fifteenth Amendment
Women - 1920 Nineteenth Amendment

2) Mayor

Blacks - 1967 Cleveland, Ohio - Carl B. Stokes

Women - 1887 Argonia, Kansas - Susanna Medora Salter

3) Governor

Blacks - 1989 Virginia - Lawrence Douglas Wilder

Women - 1974 Connecticut - Ella T. Grasso - first female governor elected without being the wife or widow of a past state governor

4) House of Representatives

Blacks - 1870 South Carolina - Joseph Rainey, first directly elected black member of the U.S. Congress

Women - 1917 Montana - Jeannette Rankin

5) US Senate

Blacks - 1870 Mississippi - Hiram Rhodes Revels

Women - 1931 Arkansas - Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway

6) US Supreme Court

Blacks - 1967 - Thurgood Marshall

Women - 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor

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