<p>[Sewell</a> a step away from being Ala’s first black congresswoman - WSFA 12 News Montgomery, AL |](<a href=“http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=12802930]Sewell”>http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=12802930)</p>
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<p>“Birmingham attorney Terri Sewell has won the Democratic nomination for the 7th Congressional District seat, putting her in position to become the first black woman elected to Congress from Alabama. . . . (continued)”</p>
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<p>Alabama’s 7th Congressional District is heavily Democratic making it almost certain that she will make history in November. If elected, Ms. Sewell will be the 28th African-American woman since 1917 to be a member of Congress, the first from Alabama and one of only three to be from the deep South. She will also be just the second woman elected to Congress from Alabama. Ms. Sewell was a Marshall Scholar and then graduated from Harvard Law School.</p>
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<p>"Terri Sewell graduated with honors from Princeton University receiving various scholarships including a U.S News and World Report scholarship. A lifetime Democrat, during the summers while in college, she worked on Capitol Hill for the congressman in the 7th Congressional District, then Richard Shelby, as well as for then Alabama Senator Howell Heflin. She was a leader on the college campus, serving in various roles including class vice-president, class representative to the Student Union, and spearheading the admission offices effort to set up a Minority Student Recruitment office to recruit and encourage more minority students to attend the University.</p>
<p>Upon graduation from college, Sewell was featured on NBCs Today Show as one of the Top Collegian Women and was chosen as one of the Top Ten College Women in America, by Glamour Magazine. She received the Afro-American Studies Thesis Prize for her senior thesis entitled, Black Women in Politics: Our Time Has Come[1] which featured a personal interview with Shirley Chisholm, the first black U.S. Congresswoman. She was awarded a Marshall/Commonwealth Scholarship and continued her education, receiving a Masters degree with first class Honours from Oxford University. At the age of 25, she published her Masters thesis into a book on the election of the first black members of British parliament entitled Black Tribunes: Race and Representation in British Politics.</p>
<p>Sewell attended Harvard Law School with the help of an NAACP Legal Defense Fund scholarship, graduating in 1992. In law school, she served as an editor of the Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review[2] and published an article about the legal struggles in Selma in the Harvard Black Letter Journal entitled, Selma, Lord, Selma (vol. 8, Spring 1991)." (continued)</p>
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