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Feb. 4, 2014 - The Republican
National Committee honored Michigan businessman Bill Brooks, Ohio Judge
Sara Harper and Dr. Louis
Sullivan of Atlanta at
its 2nd Annual Black Republican Traillblazers Awards.
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Chairman Reince Priebus and
Kristal Quarker Hartsfield.
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William Brooks is chairman and
CEO of BPI Communications and a former vice president of corporate
affairs at General Motors; he served in the Nixon, George H.W. Bush and
Clinton administrations. "Economic power is the new civil rights
frontier," Brooks stated. Brooks said Rosa Parks was a mentor to
him and challenged him to work "to get people to where you are."
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Judge Sara J. Harper, now
retired, was the first African American woman to graduate from Case
Western Reserve Law School; she was elected to the Ohio Court of
Appeals in 1990 and later was assigned to sit on the Ohio Supreme
Court. In addition the Trailblazer award she also received a
resolution from Ohio Gov. John Kasich, presented by Ohio Republican
chairman Matt Borges.
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Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. was
founding president of The Morehouse School of Medicine, and served as
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from
1989-93.
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