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Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Dies at 77

He died on Friday in Washington, a position in the settlement of a long strike by United Service workers, on Friday in Washington. It was 77.

Her death was announced, after a short illness, by her family. The advertisement did not say where she died in Washington.

President Bill Clinton was aware of Mrs. Hermann when he nominated her as a work minister in his second term. She was the CEO of the National Democratic Conference of 1992; Deputy Director of Mr. Clinton’s transitional team after his victory in the 1992 presidential elections; The Director of the White House’s public contact during his first term.

When she nominated her to the Minister of Labor, President Clinton referred to her work in the Public Communication Office, a regulator to support management policies. He said: “It was my eyes and my ears,” to work to link the American people, actions, action, individuals and societies with their government. “

Mrs. Hermann was just three months after the Ministry of Labor administration when he hit 185,000 UPS workers in early August, and delivered surrendes at the country level.

Mrs. Hermann spent five days going to a room in a hotel in Washington to persuade UPS leaders and the Teamsters Union to focus on issues.

“Today I was not trying to be hidden.” I was trying to be very direct. I moved with them. “

Joseph McCartin, historian of the Georgetown Labor Party, said that Mrs. Hermann’s role in settling the strike helped reduce tensions between the Clinton administration and the labor movement on issues such as the impact of the Free Trade Agreement in North America.

Mrs. Hermann has also played a role in the efforts made to limit the blues exploited factories by creating a code of behavior rules and a monitoring system for American companies that make clothes abroad. It has supported an increase in the minimum wage and helped the passage of the 1998 workforce investment law, a comprehensive reform of work training programs.

During her term, unemployment fell to its lowest level for 30 years.

“I have seen the efforts of the hero of the Alexis to increase diversity in the government and the workplace, and encourage young people to participate in politics,” said Robert Reikh, Mrs. Hermann’s ancestor as Minister of Labor.

Alexis Margaret Hermann was born on July 16, 1947, in Mobile, Alaa. Her mother, Gloria Braudos Capones, was a teacher. Her father, Alex Hermann, owns an insurance company. He also owned Chattanooga White Sox, the Negro Minor Legue team, and signed at the Future Satchel Paij Hall in its first professional contract.

Mr. Hermann was also a civil rights activist, a democratic politician and a wing driver on the mobile phone.

After Mrs. Hermann and her father visited a Christmas minister when she was five years old, their car was expelled from an earthen road by one driven by members of Ko Clax Klan. She remembered that her father handed her the small silver pistol who brought him to protection as he was traveling to society meetings.

“If anyone opens this door, I want you to withdraw this operator.”

He closed the door behind him and faced Klasman, who hit him.

After a year or so, Mrs. Hermann was walking to her home with her mother, who was so tiring that she decided to take the rest of the road. When they resigned, her mother collapsed from exhaustion in the front seat. The bus driver told her about moving to the back of the bus.

But she could not – or not do that – and the driver took it out of the seat, opened the door and pushed it to the street.

“With her tears in her eyes, torn socks, and she was struggling to get off her knees,

Mrs. Hermann was taught in narrow schools to avoid having to attend separate posts.

After graduating from the Kazavier Louisiana College in 1969 with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Mrs. Hermann was appointed as a social worker in the Catholic charitable societies in Mobile. In that job, the city’s ship building in the nearby Pacagola, Miss, was persuaded to give industrial disciples to young black workers.

She moved to Atlanta to direct a program for the Southern Regional Council, which pressed companies to employ black women for white collars.

The program drew the attention of the new Carter Management; In 1977, she was appointed Director of the Women’s Office of the Ministry of Labor, which represents the needs of working women.

After President Jimmy Carter lost his offer to be re-elected in 1980, Mrs. Hermann formed a consulting company with Ernst Green-one of the nine black students who canceled the abolition of the Little Rock Secondary School in 1957-which advised companies in marketing and employing minorities. Soon began to meet influential black political figures, including Andrew Young, the former civil rights leader and mayor in Atlanta; Reverend Jesse Jackson, who joined his presidential campaign for 1984 and 1988; And Ronald H. Brown, who in 1989 became president of the National Democratic Committee. Mrs. Hermann became his deputy.

When Mrs. Hermann was nominated for the Minister of Labor, she was confirmed for several months, partly by an investigation into the Senate about whether she had used the Public Communication Office to assist the influential democratic donors to reach President Clinton to participate in special interests. Some Republicans have also put forward previous claims that they made federal contracts and grants to Krones near the end of Carter’s term.

It was cleared and confirmed by the Senate, from 85 to 13.

In 2000, after achieving nearly two years, an independent public prosecutor wiped her from the accusations by a former commercial partner that she had accepted her spread in granting federal contracts when she was running the public communication office.

In a statement at the time, President Clinton insisted that Mrs. Hermann did nothing wrong and that he was “proud to contact her friend.”

Her marriage to Charles Franklin ended in his death in 2014. She has survived by her children, Charles Franklin Junior, Michelle Franklin, Sherry Smith, and the cousin of Bernard Buddos.

After serving the Clinton administration, Mrs. Hermann formed a consulting company and new projects, and served in the councils of Coca -Cola, Denji and other companies. She was also the head of the Bush Katrina Fund in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina, and joined the Clinton Bush Haiti Board of Directors after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

She was the head of the Education Fund in Dorothy I, named after the civil activist and the rights of women who were her teacher.

In a statement, Mark Morial, head of the National Urban Association, praised Mrs. Hermann, who was the Vice -Chairman of the Organization’s Board of Directors. He said, “Its commitment to enabling individuals who suffer from the lack of marginalized services and societies,” was fierce, real and not shaken. “

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