For
hundreds of years, Caribbean Americans have contributed to the
artistic, legal, literary, diplomatic, business, athletic, and
medical--you name it, there is not an endeavor where you won't find a
Caribbean American who helped shape American society. Alexander Hamilton grew up in the Leeward Islands of St. Kitts and
Nevis and went on to found our economic system. Former Attorney General
Eric Holder, whose family came from Barbados, served honorably as the
first Black Attorney General. General Colin Powell, whose own parents
immigrated from Jamaica, became our Nation's first Black chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black Secretary of State. Constance Baker Motley, whose parents were from Nevis, drafted the
complaint in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education before
serving as our Nation's first Black female Federal judge.
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