Juanita Millender-McDonald
In 1996, Juanita Millender-McDonald of California won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives just six years after capturing her first elected office at the local level.
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Julia Carson
Julia May Carson overcame poverty and racism to serve nearly two decades in state and local government—including 17 years in the Indiana state legislature—before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996, the first African American and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress.
Katie Hall
Katie Hall was the first African-American Member of Congress from Indiana, and in a little more than two years on Capitol Hill she successfully led the House effort to create a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Alma Adams
US Representative from North Carolina
Angela Alsobrooks
US Senator from Maryland
Barbara-Rose Collins
A longtime community activist, Barbara-Rose Collins was elected to Congress in 1990 on a platform to bring federal dollars and aid to her underserved neighborhood in downtown Detroit. In the House, Collins, a single mother, focused on her lifelong effort to ensure that Black families and Black communities had the resources and opportunities they needed to thrive.
Cardiss Collins
Elected to 12 consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Cardiss Collins ranks as one of the longest-serving women of color in the history of Congress.
Carrie P Meek
In 1992, Carrie P. Meek won election to the U.S. House of Representatives becoming one of the first African- American lawmakers to represent Florida in Congress since Reconstruction.
Veronica Chambers
Prolific author best known for her critically acclaimed memoir, Mama’s Girl, which has been course adopted by hundreds of high schools and colleges throughout the U.S.
Mary Antona Ebo
In 1965, after Alabama state troopers attacked voting rights marchers on what became known as “Bloody Sunday,” Sister Antona Ebo and other nuns from the Franciscan Sisters of Mary traveled to Selma and joined the march to Montgomery when it resumed two weeks later.