Other African American women in prominent positions were: Juliet D. Blackura, merchandise manager, Sears Roebuck & Co.; Atlanta, Ga Ruth Bowen, president Queen Booking Corp., New York, N.Y.; Julia M. Carson, Indiana state legislator; June Christmas, M.D., commissioner, New York City department of mental health and mental retardation; Louise M. Dargans, director of research, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington. D.C.; Doris A. Davis, mayor, Compton, CA. Jean a Fairfax, director of legal and community services, the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), New York, N.Y.; Margaret Bush Wilson, president of the NAACP; Frankie Muse Freeman, commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Ri...
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