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Lois Marie DeBerry (May 5, 1945 – July 28, 2013) was an American politician who was a member of Tennessee House of Representatives and former Speaker Pro Tempore of the Tennessee House. She was elected to represent the 91st district, part of Shelby County, as a Democrat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/members/h91.html )〕 She was first elected to the Tennessee General Assembly in 1972 and was at the time of her death the longest serving member of the House. DeBerry was the second African American woman to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly and the first woman to be speaker pro tempore of the House.〔 ==Early life and education== Lois DeBerry was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 5, 1945, the second of the five children of Samuel DeBerry and the former Mary Page. Her father was a self-employed trucker. She grew up in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of South Memphis and graduated from Hamilton High School.〔Jessie Carney Smith (1996), (Notable Black American Women ), pages 167-170.〕 During the 1960s, Lois DeBerry became engaged in the civil rights movement. In spite of objections from her parents, she participated in the August 28, 1963, March on Washington, various student sit-ins, and a Selma to Montgomery march in 1965.〔 In 1971, she graduated from LeMoyne-Owen College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lois DeBerry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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