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David N. Dinkins (1927-2020)
David N. Dinkins is best known as the first and, so far, only black mayor of New York City. In...
Mike Espy (1953- )
Alphonso Michael Espy in 1986 became the first black Congressman elected from Mississippi since John R. Lynch, who served during...
Edith Spurlock Sampson (1901-1979)
Edith Spurlock was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 13, 1901. She grew up in a working class family, one...
Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985)
Patricia Roberts Harris was born on May 31, 1924 in Mattoon, Illinois. She excelled academically and received a scholarship to...
Reginald Lewis (1942-1993)
Reginald Francis Lewis was born to a working class family in East Baltimore on December 7, 1942. His strong work...
Johnnie Cochran, Jr. (1937-2005)
Johnnie Cochran Jr. was born on October 2, 1937 in Shreveport, Louisiana into a family descended from slaves. His father...
William Calvin Chase (1854-1921)
William Chase was born in 1854 to a free black family in Washington, D.C. Chase was raised in integrated neighborhoods...
John E. Prim (1898-1961)
John Edmondson Prim was the first African American to serve as deputy prosecuting attorney for King County and the first...
Carl B. Stokes (1927-1996)
Carl B. Stokes, lawyer, anchorman, U.S. diplomat and the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, was born...
