House of Representatives while other Black women politicians have served as mayors. Many top Black female politicians got their start in the civil rights movement. Who will you find on this list of notable Black female politicians? Condoleezza Rice made history when she became the first fema...
Ginsburg spent a considerable part of her legal career as an advocate for the advancement of gender equality and women's rights, winning multiple victories arguing before the Supreme Court. She advocated as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board ...
Black Americans have served with distinction in all three branches ofgovernment, in the military, and in legal practice. Thurgood Marshall, a leading civil rights lawyer, ended up on the U.S. Supreme Court. Others, like Gen. Colin Powell, are notable political and military leaders. Ralph Bunc...
Born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez, 5 years before Castro came to power in Cuba. Garcia came to Miami with family. His father was a lawyer in Cuba, who set up successful fragrance business in the U.S. One of the few Hispanic actors to successfully crossover into mainstream Hollywood, Ga...
An eloquent trial lawyer and American Civil Liberties Union member, Clarence Darrow delivered poetic courtroom speeches that made him famous in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, and his life inspired the hit Hollywood film "Inherit the Wind." Darrow was one of the nation's first labo...
Battle would become New York City’s first Black police officer, the first Black sergeant in 1926, the first Black lieutenant in 1935, and the first Black parole commissioner in 1941. Licensed Lawyer: The first African American licensed to practice law was Macon Allen, who was admitted to ...
Terrence and Thomas had a Civil Union in Vermont in December 2003. 2001 Evan Wolfson (lawyer, author, teacher, political activist, founder and executive director of Freedom to Marry) Cheng He (change-management consultant, molecular biologist) While Evan served as assistant district attorney for...
black lawyer C. his mother D. his grandfather’s speeches 70. The word “mingling” in paragraph 2 is the closest in meaning to ___. A. interfering B. consuming C. associating D. meeting 71. This passage tells us that Martin Luther King Jr. ___. A. had a difficult childhood ...
Guernica, a large black-and-white oil painting, was painted by the Cubist Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso in 1937. The title 'Guernica' refers to the city that was bombed by Nazi planes during the Spanish Civil War. The painting depicts the horrors of war and as a result, has come to ...
De Rossi first made waves in the entertainment industry with her breakthrough role on the legal drama Ally McBeal, where she effortlessly embodied the enigmatic lawyer Nelle Porter from 1998 to 2002. This role heralded the start of an impressive career that spanned both television and film, ...