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Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Is Dead at 77
A social worker, she became a Democratic Party insider and joined President Bill Clinton’s cabinet during his second term.
Remembering Alexis Herman, the first Black US Secretary of Labor
WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor leaders, politicians and civil rights activists are mourning the death of Alexis Herman, the first ...
Alexis Herman, first Black Labor Secretary, dies at 77
Former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman died on Friday at the age of 77. Herman made history as the first Black person to hold ...
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Alexis Herman, the first Black secretary of labor in U.S. history, dies at age 77
Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights ...
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Alexis M. Herman, first Black labor secretary, dies at 77
Alexis M. Herman, who served as labor secretary from 1997 to 2001 under former President Bill Clinton, died Friday. She was ...
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Alexis Herman, first Black Labor Secretary, dies at 77
Former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman died on Friday at the age of 77. Herman made history as the first Black person to hold the role after former President Bill Clinton nominated her to the post ...
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Alexis Herman, labor secretary raised in segregated South, dies at 77
Alexis Herman, who as a child in Alabama watched Ku Klux Klan members assault her father and who rose to become the nation’s first Black labor secretary in a tenure that included intense ...