"Cora Mae Brown is an example of the less known,
grassroots heroes of American social activism. Born in 1914,
she was a social worker, policewoman, and lawyer,
and eventually became the first black woman to be elected
to a US state’s legislature, winning a seat in the Michigan State Senate
in 1952. Cora Mae Brown was also involved actively in
the National Council of Negro Women, the NAACP and the YWCA"
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