POP QUIZ (trailblazers)

As this is the first Sunday of Black History Month, match these African American "firsts" with the elected office they held.

1. Edward Brooke                a) Congressman, 1870, South Carolina
2. Cora Brown                     b) Congresswoman, 1968, New York
3. Shirley Chisholm               c) Governor, nonelected, of Louisiana,
4. Carol Mosley Braun               1872
5. P.B.S. Pinchback              d) Governor, elected, of Virginia, 1990
6. Sharon Pratt Kelly            e) Mayor of major U.S. city, 1967,
7. Joseph Rainey                        Cleveland           
8. Hiram Rhodes Revels          f) Mayor of Washington, 1990
9. Carl B. Stokes                  g) State senator, in Michigan, 1952
10. Douglas Wilder               h) U.S. senator, 1870, from Mississippi
                                         i) U.S. senator, first woman, 1992,
                                                 from Illinois
                                               j) U.S. senator, first post-
                                                 Reconstruction, 1966,
                                                 from Massachusetts


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Answers : 1. j  ; 2. g  ; 3. b  ; 4. i  ; 5. c  ; 6. f  ; 7. a  ; 8. h  ; 9. e  ; 10. d