Ronald
Brown is elected head of the Democratic National Committee.
Brown, a former Supreme
Court lawyer, was the first African-American to hold the top position in a
major political party in the U.S. He was
also the first African-American Secretary of Commerce, appointed by Bill
Clinton, who Brown helped to elect as head of the DNC. In college, Brown was
the first African-American member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Brown died on April 3, 1996 when the plane he and
32 other Americans were on crashed into a mountain in Croatia.
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