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Donald Watkins

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Donald Watkins, a lawyer, banker, and businessman, born in Parsons, Kansas in 1948 is worth $1.5 billion, one of only two African-American billionaires in the United States. At the end of the 1990s he had become involved in the treatment and banking industries, and in 1996, three years before leaving his post as Birmingham's special counsel, he invested $10 million in alcohol-based fuel additives.

Author: Tarullo, Hope
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2003
United States, Biography, Bankers, African Americans in business, African American business people, Watkins, Donald

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Elaine Jones, lawyer and former president of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund

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Elaine Jones, born in 1944, is the president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, U.S. As an African-American who experienced racism and segregation first-hand while growing up, has spent the 34 years trying to persuade judges and legislatures to make what she views as the right decisions on matters affecting equality.

Author: Duda, Karen E.
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2004
Jones, Elaine

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Ann Coulter, writer and commentator

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Ann Coulter had earlier worked as an attorney in the U.S department of justice honors program. Her first step into political commentary was as an analyst with MSNBC in 1996.

Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2003
Authors, Writers, Attorneys as authors, Coulter, Ann

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Subjects list: Attorneys, Lawyers, Personality profile
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