2007-01-08 06:10:26 · 2 answers · asked by devil_or_rebbel 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Fredrick Douglas
Barrack Obama
Jesse Jackson
Condoleeza Rice
Colin Powell
George Henry White - a former slave who served in the House of Representatives in 1880.
Henry Phelps - elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1872.
Hiram R. Revels - became the first African American Senator in 1870.
Samuel McElwee - a former slave, a lawyer, and a leader in the Republican Party in Haywood County, Tennessee during Reconstruction.
Shirley Chisholm - the first black American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Barbara Jordan - Texas' first black congresswoman who took office in 1936.
Carl B. Stokes - first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city,Detroit, Michigan, and member of the US House of Representatives. Stokes was the first African American elected to the House from Ohio.
Oscar De Priest, - became a politician after moving to Chicago. Elected in 1928, De Priest was the first African American from Illinois elected to the House of Representatives.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. - elected congressman from Harlem, 1945.
P.B.S. Pinchback - major reconstruction activist
2007-01-08 06:16:30 · answer #1 · answered by Melli 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Barrack Obama
Joseph Rainey
Hiriam Revels
George Henry White
Oscar DePreist
Carol Mosley Browm
Shirley Chisolm
Barbara Jordan
Andrew Young
Kwesi Mfume
Condolesa Rice
2007-01-08 06:18:38 · answer #2 · answered by Carollee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋