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Five years after slavery is abolished, South Carolina laborer Joseph Rainey became the first Black person to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. A former slave, Rainey was the second Black to serve in Congress (Sen. Hiram Revels was first).
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Chicago-based attorney Arnette Rhinehart Hubbard is installed as the first female president of the National Bar Association. – For more information on Black history, arts […]
Andrew Jackson Beard, an African American farmer and inventor, was issued a patent for the automatic railroad car coupler. Born a slave, Beard was inducted […]
August 24, 1950 Chicago attorney and social worker Edith Sampson is named the first black person to be appointed a U.S. delegate to the United […]