Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun , is an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois. She was the only female U.S. Senator from Illinois until Tammy Duckworth who became the U.S. Senator from Illinois in January 2017. From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New Zealand. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Following the public announcement by Richard M. Daley that he would not seek re-election, in November 2010, Braun began her campaign for Mayor of Chicago. The former Senator placed fourth in a field of six candidates, losing the February 22, 2011, election to Rahm Emanuel. Wikipedia  

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Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

“There’s a word, and the word is called misogynoir. And that word describes the double whammy that women of color have to face: You’re vulnerable on the issue of gender, and you’re vulnerable on the issue of race.”

Carol Moseley Braun

The US’s first Black woman senator on what Ketanji Brown Jackson brings to the Supreme Court https://www.vox.com/23015036/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-history (Apr 7, 2022)

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