Cora Mae Brown was the first African-American woman elected to the United States state senate, winning a seat in the Michigan State Senate in 1952.
In 1931, she graduated from Cass Technical High School and entered Fisk Universiy, historically Black college in Tennessee, where she studied sociology with renowned sociologist E. Franklin Frazierand and received an A.B. degree.
She returned to Detroit to attend Wayne State University's law school while working with the Detroit Police Department from 1941 to 1946. She graduated from Wayne State in 1948, the same year that she passed the bar exam.
Additional information is available here.
Source: Wikipedia
No comments:
Post a Comment