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Sylura Barron
1900–1997
United States
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Sylura Richardson Barron (December 25, 1900 – November 4, 1997) was an African-American political activist in San Diego, California from the 1940s into the 1990s. In 1948, she became the first black woman to be a delegate at a national political convention in the United States, when she represented California at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that year.
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