This Chicago native, a graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago and the University of Chicago Law School, was elected to the Illinois State Legislature in 1978, serving there for nine years, and was the first African-American to serve as that body's assistant majority leader.  
This Chicago native, a graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago and the University of Chicago Law School, was elected to the Illinois State Legislature in 1978, serving there for nine years, and was the first African-American to serve as that body's assistant majority leader.  Successful in a U. S. Senate bid in 1992, largely because incumbent Alan Dixon had voted to confirm Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court, she became the fourth African-American senator.  For 10 points, who was this first black woman senator who lost in her 1998 bid to be re-elected?
This Chicago native, a graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago and the University of Chicago Law School, was elected to the Illinois State Legislature in 1978, serving there for nine years, and was the first African-American to serve as that body's assistant majority leader.  
Carol Moseley-Braun