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- Board history. Do you know who the first Black woman to sit on the board of a large U.S. public company was?
Until recently, most people relying on Google would have answered that question incorrectly. The search engine says it's Dolores Wharton. In fact, the woman who held the distinction was Patricia Roberts Harris. Harris was the U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she served as secretary of housing and urban development; in the 1980s, she worked as U.S. secretary of health and human services. In 1971, she was elected to the board of IBM.
