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Parren Mitchell Portrait, 1982

In 1950, Parren Mitchell of Maryland successfully sued the University of Maryland at College Park for admission, and became the school’s first African-American graduate student. Twenty years later, he was elected to the first of eight consecutive terms in the House, representing a Baltimore district, during which he served as Chair of the Committee on Small Business.

Photograph, Joseph Daniel Clipper, 1982, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives

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