THE HONORABLE STACEY YVONNE ABRAMS. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL SPEECHES EVER. A CALL

Stacey Yvonne Abrams (/ˈeɪbrəmz/;[1] born December 9, 1973) is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017.[2] A member of the Democratic Party, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018.[3] Stacey Abrams  Abrams in 2018 Minority Leader of the Georgia House of RepresentativesIn office January 10, 2011 – July 1, 2017Preceded byDuBose PorterSucceeded byBob TrammellMember of the Georgia House of RepresentativesIn office January 8, 2007 – August 25, 2017Preceded byJoAnn McClintonSucceeded byBee NguyenConstituency89th (2013–2017) 84th (2007–2012)Personal detailsBorn Stacey Yvonne Abrams December 9, 1973 (age 46) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.Political partyDemocraticRelativesLeslie Abrams Gardner (sister)EducationSpelman College (BA) University of Texas at Austin (MPA) Yale University (JD)Websitestaceyabrams.com Abrams was the Democratic party's nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, becoming the first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States.[4] She lost to Brian Kemp in an election marked by accusations that Kemp engaged in voter suppression.[5][6] In February 2019, Abrams became the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address. Early life and educationEdit Abrams, the second of six siblings, was born to Robert and Carolyn Abrams in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in Gulfport, Mississippi.[7][8] The family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents pursued graduate degrees at Emory University[9] and later became Methodist ministers.[10][11] She attended Avondale High School, graduating as valedictorian,[12] and where she was selected for a Telluride Association Summer Program.[13] While in high school, she was hired as a typist for a congressional campaign, and at age 17, she was hired as a speechwriter based on the edits she had made while typing.[13] In 1995, Abrams earned a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies (political science, economics, and sociology) from Spelman College, magna cum laude.[2] While in college, she worked in the youth services department in the office of Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson.[13] She later interned at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.[13] As a freshman in 1992, Abrams took part in a protest on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, during which she joined in burning the state flag. At that time, Georgia's state flag incorporated the Confederate battle flag, which had been added to the state flag in 1956 as an anti-civil rights movement action.[14] The flag was designed by Southern Democrat John Sammons Bell, an attorney and Chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia who was an outspoken supporter of segregation.[15][16] As a Harry S. Truman Scholar, Abrams studied public policy at the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs, where she earned a Master of Public Affairs degree in 1998. In 1999, she earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.[2] Legal and business career Political career