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Colin Luther Powell (/ ˈ k oʊ l ɪ n ˈ p aʊ ə l / KOH-lin POW-əl; [a] April 5, 1937 – () October 18, 2021) was an American statesman, [3] diplomat, and army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005.
Colin Powell became the first Black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer during decades as one of America's most prominent leaders, but his reputation was tainted in 2003 when he ...
Colin Powell inspired me to join the Republican Party. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George. W. Bush had chosen the same Black man to serve them.
The news broke early Monday morning that 84-year-old military and political leader Gen Colin L. Powell — America’s first Black The post General Colin Powell, the first Black Secretary of State ...
The son of Jamaican immigrants, he might have become the first Black president in U.S. history. But Powell stepped to the micr Colin Powell, Who Won First Gulf War and Was Humbled by the Second ...
Black service members said Powell, a retired four-star general and the first Black secretary of state, broke barriers for people of color within the military.
1872 Currier and Ives print showing the first Black U.S. Senator and Representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC), 1872. The following is a list of Black Republicans, past and present. This list is limited ...
Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture ...