who was the first black female to be assisstant director of the FBI?
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Cassandra Chandler\n\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/06/usat-fbi.htm
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Try this link:\n\nhttp://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/First_Woman_Senator_Appointed.htm\n\nRebecca Felton (D) Georgia 1922
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Yes,that would be Dorothy Dandridge. In a bit of irony,Halle Berry played Dandridge in a tv movie about her life and the very next year,she won an Oscar for Monster's Ball,becoming the first African American woman to be named Best Actress.
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Ann Veneman\n\nSee http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/veneman-bio.html
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I actually think that the possibility exists for a black woman to be the next president of the US.  Condy Rice I feel would make an EXCELLENT president and not just of the NFL which is HER dream job.
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I'm looking for confirmation, but the answer is probably J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover's (and therefore the FBI's) position had always been that there was no such thing as the mob - especially in the U.S. - and the 2-volume 1958 monograph provided solid evidence of the Mafia's operations.\n\nMark Felt, the agent recently identified as "Deep Throat", headed many of the agency's early investigations into organized crime in the U.S.
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c.1820—1913, American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, she escaped to Phildelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most successful "conductors" on the Underground Railroad. Returning to the South more than a dozen times, she is generally credited with leading more than 300 slaves (including her parents and brother) to freedom, sometimes forcing the timid ahead with a loaded revolver. She became a speaker on the anti-slavery lecture circuit and a friend of the principal abolitionists, and John Brown almost certainly confided his Harpers Ferry plan to her. During the Civil War, Tubman attached herself to the Union forces in coastal South Carolina, serving as a nurse, cook, laundress, scout, and spy, and in 1863 she played an important part in a raid that resulted in the freeing of more than 700 slaves. At Auburn, N.Y., her home for many years after the war, the Cayuga co. courthouse contains a tablet in her honor.
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ANNE DIBBLE JORDAN (2004)\n\n\nA cultural and educational leader recognized across the nation and in the nation's Capitol, Ann Dibble Jordan became the first African American to chair a Presidential Inaugural in 1996. Formerly a social worker, a professor at the University of Chicago, and the director of the Social Services Department at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, Mrs. Jordan now works tirelessly to better the position of women and minorities across the country. She is a leader who has made civic society stronger and richer. \n\nAnn Jordan serves on the Board of Johnson & Johnson, Automatic Data Processing, Citigroup, and Catalyst and is a trustees at The Brookings Institute, the University of Chicago, WETA (Washington's PBS affiliate), and The Phillips Collection. Mrs. Jordan also chairs the Board of Directors at the National Symphony Orchestra and works with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Washington Area Women's Foundation. She and husband Vernon have four adult children.
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Ida B Wells was a crusader to stop lynchings and bring civil rights.\n\nCarl Rowan was a black journalist and worked hard at getting blacks to go to college.
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Most definetly president of the USA! We need a great black woman to fix what dumbo bush did to our great conrty!
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Another woman landmark: Nancy Pelosi is the first woman to become Speaker of the House.
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I think that both Hillary Clinton and Condoleeza Rice are intelligent women.  They have had to be, to get as far as they have in a male-dominated sphere.  As such, I think they are both pretty cool, even though I don't totally agree with either one of them.
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Susan Brownell Anthony, (February 17, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the United States.\n\nnthony was very self-conscious, both of her looks (one eye always pointed slightly outwards) and of her speaking abilities. She long resisted public speaking for fear her speech would not be good enough. However, throughout her lifetime, Anthony worked endlessly. She traveled thousands of miles each year throughout the United States and Europe giving speeches on suffrage (75 to 100 speeches per year for 45 years). She traveled by carriage, wagon, train, mule, stagecoach, ship, ferry boat and sleigh.\n\nAnthony died at Rochester, New York, on March 13, 1906 and is buried there in Mount Hope Cemetery. Anthony is known as "The Mother of us all."
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Coretta Scott King - widow of Martin Luther King Jr, became the first woman and first black person to lie in honor at the Capitol - Georgia. Coretta Scott King died in her sleep on 31st January 2006 at Santa Monica Hospital, a holistic health center in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. She was 78 years old.
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In 1910, Alice Stebbin Wells (LAPD) became the first female police officer in the U.S. with the power to arrest people. She may not have been the first policewoman ever, but having the ability to arrest someone is certainly a large part of being a police officer.
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Why not a black woman?
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I think you are referring to J Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI