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2018 Black History Month Edition

Readers, Please enjoy the Black History Edition of our Envision Equity newsletter. This edition celebrates and recognizes black woman that have shaped and molded our world into a better place. As a reader, you will have access to photos from events that embody the purpose of this newsletter. We hope you enjoy, share, and contribute to the newsletter. Lastly, remember to Envision Equity.

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Please enjoy the Black History Edition of our Envision Equity newsletter. This edition celebrates and recognizes black woman that have shaped and molded our world into a better place.

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Diversity, Equity, and Poverty Programs Celebrates <strong>Black</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />

Georgia D. Powers<br />

1923-2016<br />

Georgia Davis Powers was an American politician, who<br />

served for 21 years as a member of the state<br />

senate in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.<br />

In 1967, she was the first person of color<br />

and the first woman elected to the<br />

senate.<br />

Elected to serve in the Kentucky Senate<br />

from January 1968 to January 1989,<br />

Powers sponsored bills prohibiting<br />

employment discrimination, sex and age<br />

discrimination, in addition to introducing<br />

statewide fair housing legislation. She was a<br />

leader in the movement to change what many<br />

considered the racially insensitive wording of the<br />

Kentucky State Song, My Old Kentucky Home,<br />

in 1986.<br />

Powers was included in a national<br />

photographic exhibit that opened on<br />

February 8, 1989, at the Corcoran<br />

Gallery in Washington, D.C.: Portraits of<br />

<strong>Black</strong> Women Who Changed America.<br />

In 1989 Powers received an honorary<br />

doctor of laws degree from the<br />

University of Kentucky and an<br />

honorary doctorate of humane letters<br />

from the University of Louisville.<br />

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