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She served until 1957. In 1968, Mason was the only black woman on Virginia's Democratic Central Committee. [8] In 1971, she was appointed as the first black woman on the board of the Norfolk city school district and was named "Newsmaker of 1971" by the Virginia Pres. [7] By 1978, she founded the local chapter of the National Urban League. [7]
She is the first female lieutenant governor of Virginia as well as the first black woman lieutenant governor and statewide officeholder in the Commonwealth. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the election campaign, she declined to state whether she had been vaccinated against COVID-19 , [ 24 ] but she encouraged others to get vaccinated.
McClellan was the Democratic nominee in the 2023 Virginia's 4th congressional district special election, [1] [2] and defeated Republican nominee Leon Benjamin with 74.4% of the vote. [3] She is the first Black woman elected to Congress from Virginia. [4]
On Tuesday, Jennifer McClellan made history, becoming the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress in Virginia. McClellan, a Democrat, won a special election in the Fourth Congressional ...
Democrat Jennifer McClellan defeated her Republican opponent in a special election Tuesday to win a seat in the U.S. House The post McClellan makes history as Virginia’s first Black woman ...
Winsome Sears, a conservative Republican, has made history as the first Black woman to be elected as Virginia’s lieutenant governor. The post Republican Winsome Sears elected Virginia’s first ...
Sarah Gammon Brown Bickford (December 25, 1856 – July 19, 1931) was born into slavery in either Tennessee or North Carolina. In the 1870s she made her way to the Montana goldfields, trading work as a nanny for transportation.
Virginia Carter, born in 1894, raised Mann and her two brothers and was an admirable woman. "Left with six children and a public education system for which she paid taxes but which forbade classes for black children beyond the seventh grade, Gee-Gee managed somehow to send each of them to out-of-state boarding schools and, ultimately, to college."