today in black history

March 23, 2023

Maynard Jackson, the first Black elected Mayor of Atlanta, was born on this date in 1938 in Dallas, Texas.

Walter L. Fields Jr.

Franklin Raines

POSTED: September 25, 2008, 12:00 pm

Former Fannie Mae head Franklin Raines at the 2008 CBCF Annual Legislative Conference.

Related References

books
- Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics 2008
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media
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- President Bush Addresses the Nation
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- Black Politicians in New Jersey Reach New Low
  NorthStar Network Editorial 2003
- DC Voting Rights
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- Hate American Style
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organizations
documents
- Black Elected Officials, 1999
  One of the foremost Black think tanks looks at the status of Black elected officials in 1999
- Urban and Suburban Members of Congress
  Members of the U.S. House of Representatives representing urban and suburban districts
- CBC Newsletter, April 1975
  The April 1975 newsletter of the Congressional Black Caucus
- Memo on Poverty, 1964
  A presidential memo from 1964 that looks at the issue of poverty at the height of the War on Poverty
- 2006 Annual Jobs Report

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