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Rachel Bassette Noel (January 15, 1918 – February 4, 2008) was an African-American educator, politician and civil rights leader. She is known for the "Noel Resolution", a 1968 plan to integrate the Denver city school district, and her work to implement that plan, as well as other work on civil rights. When elected to the Denver Public Schools Board of Education in 1965, she was the first African-American woman elected to public office in Colorado. == Personal life == Rachel Bassette was born in 1918 in Hampton, Virginia to parents who were both college graduates. Her father, A. W. E. Bassette, Jr., was a lawyer. From an early age, her parents emphasized the importance of education. Bassette graduated ''magna cum laude'' with a bachelor's degree from Hampton Institute (now known as Hampton University) and earned a master's degree in sociology from Fisk University, both historically black universities. She married Dr. Edmond F. Noel from Jackson, Mississippi, whom she met at Fisk. He was born in Holmes County, Mississippi, and named for a half-uncle, Edmond Favor Noel, governor of Mississippi, serving 1908 to 1912. The African-American physician and European-American politician were from different generations of descendants of Leland Noel, a white planter in Holmes County. They moved to Denver, Colorado in 1949 following World War II and during years of the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the West. Her husband was the first African American to practice medicine in Denver. He worked at Rose Hospital, a new hospital founded by the Jewish community with criteria that allowed minority doctors to practice (they were excluded from other hospitals at the time). He also practiced medicine in the Five Points community. Together they had a son, Edmond "Buddy" Noel Jr., and daughter, Angela Noel. In her last year, Noel moved from Denver to Oakland, California in 2007 to live with her daughter. Noel died on February 4, 2008. She is survived by her two children, five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. 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「Rachel B. Noel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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