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Azie Taylor Morton was the first and only black person to serve as U.S. Treasurer! She was appointed by President Jimmy Carter on September 12, 1977, she served as the 36th Treasurer until January 20, 1981. All bills 💵printed during that time has her signature on it.

See the young man in this picture? He was 18 years old when it was taken at the train station in Mobile, Alabama, in 1952. There is $1.50 in his pocket. In that bag by his foot are two changes of clothes. (And if his mama was anything like most other mamas in the South, probably some sandwiches and other snacks.) He was on his way to Indiana to take a job. He was going to play baseball for the Indy Clowns of the Negro Leagues. Apparently, he was pretty good at it. A couple of years later, he was signed by the Milwaukee Brewers. He played for the Brewers for 2 seasons, then moved across town to the Braves, and later followed them to Atlanta. Eventually, he was the last Negro League player to be on a major league roster. He still hangs around the baseball world. At the moment, he's the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. Even though the team has changed stadiums (twice) since then, his retired number, 44, still hangs on the outfield wall of the old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium near where he belted a homer to break Babe Ruth's all-time record which he held for 33 years).

In 1898, Eliza Grier-an emancipated enslaved woman became the first black woman with a license to practice medicine in Georgia. To afford the cost of medical education at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, she alternated each year of school with a year of picking cotton.