| Mary Frances Berry  Born: 17-Feb-1938
Birthplace: Nashville, TN
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Occupation: Government, Scholar Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Civil Rights Commissioner, 1980-2004 Father: George Ford Berry
Mother: Frances Southall Berry
Brother: George, Jr. (older)
University: BA, Howard University (1961)
University: MA, Howard University (1962)
University: PhD History, University of Michigan (1966)
Law School: JD, University of Michigan Law School (1970)
Administrator: Provost, University of Maryland College Park
Administrator: Chancellor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Professor: History and Social Thought, University of Pennsylvania
US Commission on Civil Rights (1980-2004, as Chair, 1993-2004)
US Health, Education and Welfare Department Assistant Secretary for Education (1977-80)
Organization of American Historians President (1990-91)
Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions
District of Columbia Bar
Gore 2000
Hillary Clinton for President
Hillary Rodham Clinton for US Senate Committee
Left at Orphanage temporarily
Official Website:
http://www.maryfrancesberry.com/
Author of books:
Black Resistance, White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America (1971)
Military Necessity and Civil Rights Policy: Black Citizenship and the Constitution, 1861-1868 (1977)
Long Memory: The Black Experience in America (1982, with John Blassingame)
Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution (1986)
The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother (1993)
The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present (1999)
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