San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1992 Page: 2 of 16
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February 27,1992
The San Antonio Register
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Salutes Black Achievement
in the Area of
Political Office
Carl B. Stokes
Car] B. Stokes began making history in 1972 when
he became the first Black Democrat elected to the
Ohio Legislature. Five years later, he made history
again by becoming the first Black mayor of an
American City when he was elected mayor of
Cleveland, Ohio.
A high school dropout who realized the importance
of education and returned to school and graduated.
Stokes earned a B. S. degree from the University of
Minnesota in 1954, and two years later, a degree
from Cleveland Marshall School of Law.
After serving two terms as mayor of Cleveland, he
went to New York City in 1972 as the first Black
anchorman on a daily television news program.
He returned to Cleveland in 1983 and was elected
presiding judge of the Cleveland Municipal Court
This, too, was an historic benchmark. Stokes became
the first Black to be elected to all three branches of government In our nation.
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"his having been first is a matter of
sequence....His significance lies
not in the order in which he came
to his positions but in the
accomplishments when he was in
those positions."
Gilbert Ware
Biographer for William Henry
Hastie
William Henry Hastie was the first
Black to become a U. S. District
Judge and a U. S. Court of Appeals
Judge.
Hastie was an achiever almost from
birth, graduating valedictorian from
his high school class in Knoxville,
Tennessee. He won a scholarship to
Amherst College where he majored
Shirley Chisolm
Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman in Congress and
the first Black to run for President of the United States.
The daughter of a Barbadian seamstress and a Guyanese
factory worker, she graduated from Brooklyn College on a
scholarship and earned a Master's in Education from Columbia
University.
Her first political office was her election to the New York
State Assembly in 1964. In 1969, she was elected to the U. S.
House of Representatives.
An educator, she was quite at home as Chairwoman of the the
Education and Labor subcommittee on elementary, secondary,
and vocational education.
in mathematics and became a track
star. He was elected Phi Beta Kappa
and graduate major cum laude and
was valedictorian of his graduating
class at Amherst. He taught school
for two years, then entered Harvard
Law School. He was elected to the
Law Review and graduated in 1930.
He was a fierce believer in equality.
He rode a bicycle to school rather
than sit in segregated street cars.
In the 1930's and 1940's he was a
key player in the civil rights
movement. While dean of the
Howard . Law School, he helped
develop a cadre of lawyers who
became known as 'the civil rights
warriors.' He also argued and won
Supreme Court cases to end
segregation on trains and buses and
to ensure Blacks' voting nights in
primary elections in the South.
He was a U. S. District Judge in the
Virgin Islands from 1947-1939 and
was governor of the Islands from
1946-1949.
The Military
Education
Mary McLeod Bethune
The daughter of former slaves, Mary McLeod Bethune rose to become the first
Black woman adviser for the U. S. National Youth Administration.
Witnessing a lack of educational opportunities for Blacks in the south, Bethune
decided, in 1904, to start her own school—The Dayton Normal and Industrial
Institute. She staned out with only six students—five girls who paid 50tf a week
tuition and her son. She subsidized her school's income by training her young
students to sing, sold pies, solicited donationsdoor to door, scrounged furnishings
from the trash piles of hotels, and spoke at functions to keep her school solvent.
The Bethune Choral Group became quite well-known in the area.
In 1923 Dayton Normal and Industrial Institute merged with Cookman
Institute, a men's college in Jacksonville, Florida. The institution still stands
today as Bethune-Cookman College.
Mrs. Bethune became an advisor to Presidents and served on the Advisory
Committee for the National Youth Administration—the first Black woman to do
She was also one of three Black consultants to the United States delegation that
formed the United Nation's charter, and in 1937 she formed the National Council
of Negro Women to improve opportunities for Black women.
And In San Antomio We Salute
•Artemsia Bowden Founder of Bowden Normal School which is
now St. Philips College
•G. J. Sutton, Bexar County's First Black State Representative
•Lou Nell Sutton, Bexar County's First Black Female State
Representative
•Dr. William Davis, Inventor of Instant
Mashed Potatoes
•Julius Glosson, First Black Coach in the
Southwest Conference
•Rev. S. H. James, San Antonio's First
Black City Councilman
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G. J. Sutton
Lou Nell Sutton
Daniel "Chappie" James
Daniel "Chappie" James was America's
first Black four star general.
"Chappie" was one of the first of a
group of civilian military trained force
of Black pilots in 1929.
He studied at Tuskegee Institute where
he completed his civilian training under
a program set up by Franklin Roosevelt
and Harry Truman.
Upon completion of his four years at Tuskegee, he remained as a civilian
instructor in the Air Corps Program. These flyers that he trained made up
the famous 94th Squadron.
He later joined the Air Force as a Second Lieutenant Mid became a
decorated fighter pilot in Korea and Viet Nam by flying 101 combat
missions.
In March of 1970, he became the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
and later assumed the duties of the Military Airlift Command. Before
being named Commander in Chief, he was promoted to a Four Star
General.
Hazel Winifred Johnson
First Black Woman
General
Hazel Johnson made history
in September, 1979 when she
became General Hazel John-
son.
She was reared on a farm in
Malvern, Pennsylvania, and
graduated from Villanova
University with a degree in
Public health care and nursing.
She later earned a Master's degree in Nursing Education from
Columbia University. ... .
After working awhile as an operating room nurse, she joined
the U. S. Army Nurse Corps. She moved through the ranks to
earn the highest level of military success any Black woman had
ever obtained.
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Glosson, Edwin. San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1992, newspaper, February 27, 1992; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth399586/m1/2/?q=hamilton+county: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.