FEBRUARY 22, 2017
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 21
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
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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
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man
First Black wo license
t’s
to earn a pilo
MARGARET CARTER
The first black woman elected
to Oregon state’s legislature
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ration
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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