What famous guest of the Hope Street Hotel was also the first female African-American Secretary of State?
Condoleezza Rice
Title: Sarah Brockington Bost
Passage: Sarah Brockington Bost (born 1947) was the first female African-American to serve as Mayor of Irvington, New Jersey.  She was the first African-American to head the Women Mayors Division of the United States Conference of Mayors.  In 2003 she was sentenced to a year in prison for witness tampering.
Title: Hope Street Hotel
Passage: The Hope Street Hotel Hope Street, Liverpool, and describes itself as 'Liverpool’s first boutique hotel'.  On the 30 and 31 March 2006 it played host to Condoleezza Rice. The hotel is housed in a 19th-century Venetian Palazzo which dates to 1860 originally home to and named 'The London Carriage Works' which is how the hotel's restaurant came to be named.
Title: Harriet E. Wilson
Passage: Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of any gender to publish a novel on the North American continent.  Her novel "Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black" was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.  The novel was discovered in 1982 by the scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who documented it as the first African-American novel published in the United States.  The novel, "The Bondwoman's Narrative" by Hannah Crafts, published for the first time in 2002, may have been written before Wilson's book.
Title: East of Hope Street
Passage: East of Hope Street is a 1998 award-winning film drama directed and produced by Nate Thomas.  It was executive produced by Tim Russ (best known for his role as Lieutenant Commander Tuvok on the television series) who also stars in the film.  "East of Hope Street" had a limited release in theaters beginning on November 5, 1999 by The Cinema Guild.  It had a home video street date on September 21, 2004.  The gritty, urban, fact-based story is loosely based on director Nate Thomas's 10 years of experience working as a counselor in a group home for pregnant teens in Los Angeles.  Russ plays a role autobiographical of Thomas.  The film has been called "timely and provocative" by the Los Angeles Daily News, "an emotional and powerful film" by KCOP-TV, "stark and unflinching" by Backstage, and "a testament to the human spirit" by The Austin Chronicle.
Title: Ethel L. Payne
Passage: Ethel L. Payne (August 14, 1911 – May 28, 1991) was an African-American journalist.  Known as the "First Lady of the Black Press", she was a columnist, lecturer, and [[Freelancer|freelance]] writer.  She combined advocacy with journalism as she reported on the [[Civil Rights Movement]] during the 1950s and 1960s, and was known for asking questions others dared not ask.  She became the first female African-American [[Pundit (expert)|commentator]] employed by a national network when [[CBS]] hired her in 1972.  In addition to her reporting of American domestic politics, she also covered international stories.
Title: Liverpool College of Art
Passage: Liverpool College of Art is located at 68 Hope Street, in Liverpool, England.  It is a Grade II listed building.  The original building, facing Mount Street, was designed by Thomas Cook and completed in 1883.  The extension along Hope Street, designed by Willink and Thicknesse, opened in 1910.  The building is currently owned by Liverpool John Moores University.  The university's School of Art and Design moved out of the building to new premises at the Art and Design Academy in 2008.  68 Hope Street also currently houses the School of Humanities and Social Science.
Title: Carol Moseley Braun
Passage: Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999.  She was the first female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois.  She was the only female U.S. Senator from Illinois until Tammy Duckworth who became the U.S. Senator from Illinois in January 2017.  From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New Zealand.  She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 2004 U.S. presidential election.  Following the public announcement by Richard M. Daley that he would not seek re-election, in November 2010, Braun began her campaign for Mayor of Chicago.  The former Senator placed fourth in a field of six candidates, losing the February 22, 2011, election to Rahm Emanuel.
Title: Condoleezza Rice
Passage: Condoleezza "Condi" Rice ( ; born November 14, 1954) is an American political scientist and diplomat.  She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush.  Rice was the first female African-American Secretary of State, as well as the second African-American Secretary of State (after Colin Powell), and the second female Secretary of State (after Madeleine Albright).  Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position.
Title: Violette Neatley Anderson
Passage: Violette Neatley Anderson (July 16, 1882–December 24, 1937) was the first female African-American law school graduate in the state of Illinois.  On January 29, 1926, she became the first African-American woman to practice law at the United States Supreme Court.
Title: Claudia L. Thomas
Passage: Claudia L. Thomas is the first female African-American orthopedic surgeon in the United States.  She attended Medical School at Johns Hopkins University.  She was the first African-American and woman to be admitted to the Yale Medical Program in orthopedics.  She strives to increase the number of minority students in medical school and to help decrease racial bias in the healthcare industry.  While in her undergrad at Vassar College she helped form the Students’ Afro-American Society (SAS), whose members pushed for the creation of a Black Studies program at the college.  She has overcome kidney failure which was exacerbated by a hurricane and is a cancer survivor.
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