Mildred Mitchell-Bateman was the first African-American woman to be named to a high-ranking office in West Virginia state government. In 1962, she became director of the Department of Mental Health and served in that capacity for fifteen years. Mitchell was born in Brunswick, Georgia, in 1922, the daughter of a minister and a registered nurse. […]
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