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During the founding of the federal government, Black Americans were consigned to a status of second-class citizenship or enslaved. [2] No African American ever held a cabinet position before the civil rights movement or the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and labor ...
Pages in category "African-American members of the Cabinet of the United States" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Black Cabinet was an unofficial group of African-American advisors to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. African-American federal employees in the executive branch formed an unofficial Federal Council of Negro Affairs to try to influence federal policy on race issues.
In terms of total personal wealth, Trump's cabinet was the wealthiest in modern American history. [92] The cabinet was largely made up of nominees who had business experience but minimal or no experience in the government when compared to the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. [93]
Alexander Lucius Twilight was an American educator, politician, and minister. He was the first African American to earn a college degree from an American College at Middlebury College in 1823. He is the first African American elected to serve in a state legislature, the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836.
The Rev. Al Sharpton criticized President-elect Trump for lacking Black Cabinet or high-level administration appointees thus far. “In the two weeks since Donald Trump was elected to a second ...
There currently are 57 African-American representatives and two African-American delegates in the United States House of Representatives, representing 29 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. Most are members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era; African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866; List of African-American statewide elected officials; List of minority attorneys general in the United States; National Black Caucus of State Legislators; List of African-American Republicans