Cora Brown

Background

There her father established a tailor shop.

Education

In 1931, Brown graduated from Cass Technical High School and entered Fisk University, an historically African-American college in Tennessee. There she studied sociology with the renowned sociologist, East. Franklin Frazier and received an Bachelor of Arts degree. She returned to Detroit to attend Wayne State University"s law school while working with the Detroit Police Department from 1941 to 1946.

She graduated from Wayne State in 1948.

That same year Brown passed the bar examination

Career

Cora was Richard and Alice Brown"s only child born in Bessemer, Alabama. At the age of eight she and her family moved to Detroit, Michigan. Education Politics In 1950 and 1951 Brown ran for a seat on the Michigan State Senate but was defeated.

At the time a Michigan state senate term was approximately two years.

She served as the state senator for the 2nd district during her first term and served for the 3rd district during her second term. Brown fought strongly for civil rights, but clashed with some of her fellow Democrats because she believed they were too heavily influenced by a federation of industrial unions, the Chief Information Officer (Congress of Industrial Organizations).

This prompted Brown to switch to the Republican Party. In 1956 she was a candidate in the Democratic Primary for United States. representative from Michigan"s 1st District.

The year afterwards she was appointed as the special associate general counsel of the United States. Post Office in 1957, where she served the remainder of her working life.

Achievements

• On November 4, 1952, she ran again and won, and served for two terms (1953–1956).