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This person was the first black congresswoman to be elected from the Deep South?
Barbara Jordan
Cynthia McKinney
Shirley Chislom ---- shirley chiclsom
The president is the highest elected official in our government. Currently the highest elected president is Barack Obama. He is the first black elected president in the United States.
Shirley Anita Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress in 1968.
Thomas Jefferson was the first to be elected under this amendment in 1804 when he ran for a second term.
Gerald Ford
Barbara Jordan
Texas
this republican was first black perosn elected to the U.S. senate.
Shirley Chisholm
Barbara Jordan
cythina
Barbara Jordan was the first Black Congresswoman to be elected from the South. She was elected to office in 1976.
Robert L. Planton
condaleza rice
Barack Obama is the first (and so far, the only) black person to serve as president of the United States. He was elected in 2008 for the first time and then re-elected in 2012.
barak obamah-the first black man elected as president(usa)
Barack Obama was the first Black president elected.