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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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 ...

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