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Cora Mea Brown (born April 19, 1914, Bessemer, Alabama) was the first African-American woman elected to a United States state senate, winning a seat in the Michigan State Senate in 1954. April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ...
1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Bessemer is an American city and suburb of Birmingham located in southwestern Jefferson County, Alabama. ...
An African American (also Afro-American, Black American) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...
State legislatures are the lawmaking bodies of the 50 states in the United States of America. ...
Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area Ranked 11th - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²) - Width 239 miles (385 km) - Length 491 miles (790 km) - % water 41. ...
Biography
Early life Cora was the daughter of a tailor. At the age of eight she and her family moved to Detroit, Michigan. Nickname: Motor City, Motown Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area - City 370. ...
Education In 1931, Brown graduated from Cass Technical High School and entered Fisk University, a historically African-American college in Tennessee. There she studied sociology. She returned to Detroit to attend Wayne State University's law school while working with the Detroit Police Department. She graduated from Wayne State in 1948. That same year Brown passed the bar exam. Cass Technical High School is a high school in Detroit, Michigan. ...
Fisk University is a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It was established by John Ogden, Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath and Reverend Edward P. Smith and named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmens Bureau. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Largest metro area Nashville Area Ranked 36th - Total 42,169 sq mi (109,247 km²) - Width 120 miles (195 km) - Length 440 miles (710 km) - % water 2. ...
Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan, in the citys Cultural Center. ...
A bar examination is an series of tests conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given American examination usually consists of the following: complicated essay questions concerning that jurisdictions law; the Multistate Bar Examination, a standardized, nationwide examination containing generalized...
Polictics In 1950 Brown ran for a seat on the Michigan State Senate but was defeated. On November 4, 1952, she ran again and won, and served for two terms (1953-1956). She served as the state senator for the 2nd district during her first term and served for the 3rd district during her second term. Brown fought strongly for civil rights, but clashed with some of her fellow Democrats because she believed they were too heavily influenced by a federation of industrial unions, the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations). This prompted Brown to switch to the Republican Party. She supported Dwight D. Eisenhower when he ran in the 1956 election for president. In 1956 she was a candidate in the Democratic Primary for U.S. representative from Michigan's 1st District. Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...
The Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO, was a federation of unions that organized industrial workers in the United States and Canada in 1935-1955. ...
Dwight David Eisenhower (also known as Ike) (born David Dwight Eisenhower on October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American soldier and politician. ...
See also United States citizens of African descent, African-Americans, make up a demographic minority of a national population composed primarily of those of European-Caucasian ancestry. ...
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