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*Bettieanne Childers the first African American the largest of the 1,600
Hart was elected to the Woman Superior Court NAACP chapters
Georgia State House of Judge to serve in the state nationwide.
Representatives in 1992, outside Metro-Atlanta. She
becoming the first African- practiced in the states of
American Woman to be Colorado, Florida, and
elected to the State House Georgia and retired as
from a rural district in Deputy District Attorney of
Georgia. In 1994, she was Fulton County. Currently a
appointed Superior Court noted activist for social
Judge in the Augusta justice in the state of
Judicial Circuit, making her Georgia. Honors include the
awarding of Judge Barbara
Harris Community Service
Award by Georgia Entrepreneurs
Association of Black Women *Bertha June "BJ"
Attorneys.
Hampton Cooper
Madelyn Cooper Taylor became the 1st
served as Memphis City entrepreneur in the Class of
Councilwoman and retired 1969 when a $5,000
as Executive Director of the investment from her father,
Memphis NAACP after 24 William Hampton enabled
years of institution building her to open Hello Dollies in
within the Memphis Branch, 1972, the 1st Black owned
