George Bush nominated the First Black Man and the First Black woman both as Secretary of State but thats not a "Famous First"?
Nor is Clarrence Thomas mentioned. What about Great Thinker Thomas Sowell?
Here is one of my personal heros -
Ida B. Wells (1862 - 1931)
Ida B. Wells was a journalist, advocate for civil rights and an anti-lynching crusader. She was born in Springfield, Mississippi and helped to found the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and the ***** Fellowship League. She worked with the white Republicans who started the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People on February 12, 1909.
She was forced off of a train for refusing to sit in the Jim Crow car designated for blacks and was awarded $500 by a circuit court. That decision was overruled by the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1887, a rejection that ultimately strengthened her resolve to devote her life to upholding justice. She reported in two black newspapers, the New York Age
2007-02-17
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2007-02-17
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