Eric Holder made history by being appointed as the first African-American U.S. Attorney General under President Barack Obama, and today is his birthday.
Inside the GM plant where nooses and ‘whites-only’ signs hung
Eric Himpton Holder Jr. was born in 1951 in the New York borough of the Bronx to parents of Bajan descent. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. In American History. He then earned a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. While as a freshman at Columbia, Holder involved himself in civil rights actions and Black student affairs.
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