BHB 2022: Politics & Govt.

US first black elected governor

• L. Douglas Wilder
• Frederick Douglass

First black presidential candidate to run for office on a minor ticket

• George Taylor
• Bower Taylor

First African American to become US Secretary of Education

• Rodney Paige
• Paige Rodney

First black woman federal judge

• Constance Baker Motley
• Motley Crew

First black elected mayor of Major American city (Cleveland)

• Carl Stokes
• Stokely Carmichael

First black woman to be elected mayor of major American City in 1990 (Washington DC)

• Sharon Kelly
• Kelly Sharon