BIG at PBGC (Blacks In Government)

10/02/2023

02/18/2023

Dorothy Lavinia Brown was born in Philadelphia, in January of 1919 to an u***d mother who moved to Troy (NY), and then placed her in an orphanage when she was just five-months-old. In 1925, Brown's estranged mother reclaimed her, only to see her run away from home on five separate occasions.

At age 15 (the last time Brown ran away from her mother), she enrolled herself in high school. Recognizing that she had no place to stay, the school's principal arranged for Brown to live with foster parents who became a very positive influence in her life.

Brown went on to graduate at the top of her high school class at the age of 18, and then enrolled at Bennett College in Greensboro (NC), where she graduated number two in her class in 1941. Pretty remarkable so far, right? Well, hold onto your seats to see what she did next.

Following college, Brown returned to Upstate New York where she worked as an inspector at the Rochester Army Ordnance Dept. for two years before returning to school to study medicine at Meharry Medical College in Nashville.

After graduating from medical school in 1948, Brown became the first African-American female to be appointed to a general surgery residency in the racially segregated South.

Fast-forward to 1957 and Brown was named Chief Surgeon at Riverside Hospital in Nashville, and in 1966, became the first African-American female to be elected to the Tennessee State Legislature.

Along the way, she also became the became the first unmarried woman in Tennessee authorized to be an adoptive parent.

02/16/2023

Jackie Robinson leaving Ebbetts Field after playing his first major league game, April 15, 1947.

02/16/2023

ON THIS DAY...February 16, 1972
Wilt Chamberlain. scores his 30,000th point, becoming the first NBA player to reach it.

02/15/2023

Angel Gregorio recently acquired a $1M property to open Black and Forth, a strip mall for Black women-owned businesses in Washington D.C.

02/15/2023

Remembering Emmett J. Scott.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Emmett_Jay_Scott

02/14/2023

Wishing everyone a safe and happy Valentine's Day!♥️