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Article: Patricia Robert Harris: July 19, 1979. (Pres Jimmy Carter appointed her the secretary of health, education and welfare, making her the first African American woman to hold a cabinet post)(This Week in Black History)(Brief Article)
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- Jet
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- July 22, 1996
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Patricia Roberts Harris, lawyer, was appointed secretary of health, education and welfare on this day by President Jimmy Carter. Later that year, Congress established a separate department of education and Harris' department became the department of health and human services. Her career encompassed a litany of firsts: She was the first Black woman to hold a Cabinet post in the U.S. She held two posts to be exact; at the time she was appointed as secretary of health, education and welfare, she was already serving as secretary of housing and urban development. She was the first Black ...
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Article: Patricia Roberts Harris featured on new stamp
Chicago Sun-Times;
January 9, 2000 ;
548 words
...Patricia Roberts Harris, the first African-American Cabinet member, is this year's ... S. Housing and Urban Development Department during President Jimmy Carter's administration and later headed the Health, Education and Welfare ...
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