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Jacquelyn Harrison Barrett (born November 4, 1950) served three terms as sheriff of Fulton County, Georgia, making her the first African-American woman to ever receive the title in the United States. After a " reverse discrimination " lawsuit was filed against her by 18 deputy sheriffs, Barrett was suspended from office by Governor Sonny Perdue ...
Harvard was offered the position of Atlanta Chief of Police in 1994 and was officially confirmed by the city council on October 26, 1994, becoming the first black woman to be a police chief of any major city in the United States.
McCollum was inducted in March 2023 into the National Law Enforcement Officer Hall of Fame, receiving the Scherer-Remsberg Lifetime Achievement Award. [ 16 ] CSI Atlanta, which McCollum appears in, won a 2020 EMMY Award, Southeast.
This Black ‘special officer’ shows how Jim Crow played out in Fort Worth law enforcement. ... law and order on a daily basis in the Black community, and that job fell to a few Black men hired ...
Three women will be inducted posthumously: Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019), an early pioneer of laser cataract surgery and the first Black woman physician to receive a medical patent; Dr. Anna ...
The scene opens on Atlanta’s best-known bookie, Gordon “Chicken Man” Williams (Kevin Hart), who aspires to make his way up the ranks of the Black Mafia and be part of the Black crime ...
Name Original chapter Notability References Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, J.D., Ph.D. Gamma: 1919–1923. Mossell Alexander was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, one of the first Black women to receive a Phi Beta Kappa Key in the state of Pennsylvania, and the first ...
Georgia Ann Robinson (née Hill; May 12, 1879 – September 21, 1961) was an American police officer and community worker who was the first African American woman to be appointed a police officer at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD); she was also one of the first Black policewomen to be hired in the country. She joined the force in 1916 ...