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Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999.
Jun 20, 2024 · Carol Moseley Braun was a Democratic senator from Illinois (1993–99), who in 1992 became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate. Carol Moseley attended the University of Illinois at Chicago (B.A., 1969) and received a law degree from the University of Chicago (1972).
Carol Moseley Braun served in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999 as a Democrat from Illinois. Born in Chicago in 1947, Moseley Braun came of age in the midst of the civil rights movement and pursued a career in law.
Mar 19, 2002 · As the late Mayor Harold Washington's legislative floor leader, Carol Moseley-Braun was the chief sponsor of bills to reform education and to ban discrimination in housing and private clubs.
Jun 20, 2024 · NEW YORK (AP) — The first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Carol Moseley Braun, will have a memoir out next year. Hanover Square Press, a HarperCollins Publishers imprint, announced Thursday that Moseley Braun’s “Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics” is scheduled for Jan. 21. According to the publisher, Moseley Braun ...
Born with a drive inherited from a legacy of service, fueled with a passion to make a difference in the lives of those around her, rising to the ministerial rank of Ambassador, Carol Moseley Braun is the embodiment of the American success story.
Jun 19, 2020 · In 1993, Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, joined Biden’s Judiciary Committee. It solved an image problem for Biden. The results were groundbreaking.
On July 22, 1993, Illinois senator Carol Moseley Braun, the first African American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, successfully blocked the renewal of a patent for an insignia that featured the first national flag of the Confederate States of America.
The former Illinois senator and onetime U.S. ambassador Carol Moseley Braun is now paying rapt attention. Late last month, Moseley Braun was quietly sworn in as the new chairman of the United States African Development Foundation, an aid organization now marking its 40th anniversary in Washington, D.C.
Carol Moseley Braun served in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999 as a Democrat from Illinois. Born in Chicago in 1947, Moseley Braun came of age in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement and pursued a career in law. In the 1970s her environmental activism led to a political career.
