Julia carson childhood
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Julia carson childhood
Indiana Crossroads: Hoosier Civil Rights
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Julia Carson was born in Kentucky in 1938 and raised by her single mother. They moved to Indianapolis when Carson was young. She attended Crispus Attucks High School and married shortly after her graduation in 1955.
Her two children, Samuel and Tonya, were still young children when their parents divorced, leaving Carson to raise the children on her own [1].
In 1972, Representative Andy Jacobs persuaded Carson into running for office in the Indiana legislature.
Congresswoman julia carson indiana
She served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1973 to 1977, when she was elected to the Indiana State Senate, serving until 1990. In 1996, she became the first African American and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress when she was elected as a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives. Throughout her career, she was known for defending civil rights and the poor, determined to help those whose lives might have resembled her own childhood and e