Leland, Mickey, 1944-1989
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Leland, Mickey, 1944-1989
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1944-1989
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Leland, George T. (George Thomas), 1944-1989
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George T.
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George Thomas "Mickey" Leland (November 27, 1944 – August 7, 1989) was an anti-poverty activist who later became a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He was a Democrat.
Growing up in the predominantly African American and Hispanic Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, Leland attended Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas, where he ranked in the top ten percent of his class when he graduated from Wheatley in 1964. While attending Texas Southern University in the late 1960s, he emerged as a vocal leader of the Houston-area civil rights movement and had brought national leaders of the movement to Houston. Leland graduated from Texas Southern in 1970 with a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy. He served as an Instructor of Clinical Pharmacy at his alma mater in 1970–71, where he set up "door-to-door" outreach campaigns in low-income neighborhoods to inform people about their medical care options and performing preliminary screenings.
In 1972, Texas for the first time allowed its State House of Representatives and Senate seats to be elected as single-member districts. Soon after the decision, five minority candidates (dubbed the "People's Five"), including eventual winners Leland, Craig Washington and Benny Reyes ran for district seats in the Texas House of Representatives, a first for a state that, although Barbara Jordan had been a state senator, had not seen any African-American state representatives since Reconstruction.
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Affirmative action programs
African Americans
Apartheid
Criminals
Discrimination in law enforcement
Health education
Education, Higher
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Food relief
Homeless persons
Infants
Labor laws and legislation
Malnutrition
Minority business enterprises
Police brutality
Poor
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African American legislators
African American legislators
Pharmacists
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Houston
TX, US
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Lubbock
TX, US
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