1929-1990
2007-06-13 06:01:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Also, any help on the change in life of black americans 1929-90 would be helpful!!!
2007-06-13 06:02:02 · update #1
I wouldnt have asked on here if i could have found something -_-
2007-06-13 06:15:32 · update #2
Thurgood Marshall was the first black justice of the Supreme Court. Shirley Chisholm was a Congresswoman from New York who was the first black woman to run for president in1972.
2007-06-13 06:06:14 · answer #1 · answered by abdiver12 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Senator Barack Obama
Congressmen: Harold Ford, Jr.; Al Green; G. K. Butterfield; Hank Johnson; Keith Ellison
Congresswomen: Yvette Clark, Gwen Moore, Diane Watson
Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State
Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
There are a lot more.
2007-06-13 13:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shirley Chisolm was the first black woman elected to congress.
Edward William Brooke III (senator from Massachusetts)
Charles Rangel (congressman from NY)
David Dinkins (mayor NYC)
Here's a great site with a timeline about African-Americans and their lives during that time period.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/african8.html
2007-06-13 13:32:52 · answer #3 · answered by Coco28 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Colin Powell, Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm and Carl Stokes.
2007-06-13 13:08:48 · answer #4 · answered by staisil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow...more than you know...
Blanche Kelso Bruce - Ist African American Senator (1841 to 1898..a bit older in history than you asked for)
Shirley Chisholm
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. Dubois
Barbara Jordan
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Are but a few....
2007-06-13 13:16:17 · answer #5 · answered by Toots 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look it up......
2007-06-13 13:03:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋