Alpha Kappa Alpha - List of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sisters, Sharon Pratt Kelly, List of Alpha Kappa Alpha Boules (Paperback)

Chapters: List of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sisters, Sharon Pratt Kelly, List of Alpha Kappa Alpha Boules. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sharon Pratt Kelly (born January 30, 1944), formerly Sharon Pratt Dixon and now known as Sharon Pratt, was the third mayor of the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1995. Pratt was the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major American city. She is also to date the only woman to have served as mayor of Washington D.C. She was born to D.C. Superior Court judge Carlisle Edward Pratt and Mildred "Peggy" (Petticord) Pratt. Three years later, a sister, Benaree, was born. After she lost her mother (breast cancer) at an early age, her grandmother, Hazel Pratt, and aunt, Aimee Elizabeth Pratt, helped raise the girls. Miss Pratt attended D.C. Public Schools Gage ES, Rudolph ES, MacFarland Junior High School, and Roosevelt HS (1961, with honors). She excelled at baseball but deemphasized that in adolescence. At Howard University she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (1964), and earned a B.A. in political science (1965) and J.D. (1968). She met and dated her future husband there. She married Arrington Dixon (1966) and bore daughters in 1968 and 1970. They divorced after sixteen years. Initially her political energies were drawn to national rather than local politics. She was a member of the Democratic National Committee from the District of Columbia (1977-1990), the first female to hold that position. She was DNC Treasurer (1985-1989). Pratt directed the failed 1982 mayoral campaign of Patricia Roberts Harris. At the 1980 Democratic National Convention, she was a member of the Ad Hoc Credentials Committee, member of the Judicial Council, and co-chairman of the Rules Committee. In 1983, she was made Vice Presid...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1060942