Senator Yvonne B. Miller
Yvonne B. Miller was the first black woman elected to the Virginia Senate. Miller, who shared a birthday synonymous with Independence Day, was the longest serving woman in the history of the Virginia Senate. In 1987, Miller became the first woman member of the Virginia Senate. The state of Virginia’s resistance to desegregation in the […]
Yvonne B. Miller was the first black woman elected to the Virginia Senate. Miller, who shared a birthday synonymous with Independence Day, was the longest serving woman in the history of the Virginia Senate. In 1987, Miller became the first woman member of the Virginia Senate. The state of Virginia’s resistance to desegregation in the […]
Alfred Hair a.k.a “Freddie” of Fort Pierce, Florida was a black artist and student of a well-known white art teacher named A.E. Backus. Hair was born pre-civil rights and used painting as a release from the segregated south. His style of painting bright scenes of Florida, with no two paintings just alike, came to be […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Yvonne B. Miller, the first African-American woman elected to Virginia's state legislature, died on July 3. She was 77. Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Don McEachin said Miller died at her Norfolk home. She was a career educator and an outspoken advocate for Virginia's poor and minorities in the General Assembly. Miller […]
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