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About The skanner. (Portland, Or.) 1975-2014 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 2017)
FEBRUARY 22, 2017 Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 21 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW 25 CENTS BLACK HISTORY MONTH Special Edition WOMEN IN BLACK HISTORY SHIRLEY CHISHOLM First Black congresswoman in 1968 and four years later, the first major-party Black candidate to bid for the U.S. presidency AUTHERINE LUCY The first Black student to desegregate the University of Alabama in 1956 BESSIE COLEM AN man First Black wo license t’s to earn a pilo MARGARET CARTER The first black woman elected to Oregon state’s legislature AVIS D A L E G N A ration Black libe ist activ ALTHEA GIBSON Tennis player and professional golfer, the first Black athlete to cross the color line of international tennis JANE BOLIN First Black female judge in the United States