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Verda Mae Freeman Welcome (18 March 1907 – 22 April 1990) was an American teacher, civil rights leader, and Maryland state senator.
Welcome was the second black woman to be elected to a state senate in the U.S. (Cora Mae Brown was the first in 1952). She spent 25 years in the Maryland legislature and worked to pass legislation which enforced stricter employment regulations and discouraged racial discrimination.
Early life and education
Born as Verda Mae Freeman, one of sixteen children of John Nuborn and Ella Theodocia Freeman, Verda Welcome was born on a small farm in Lake Lure (previously known as Uree), North Carolina.
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In 1929, she moved to Baltimore, and graduated from Coppin State Teachers College three years later. She married Dr. Henry C. Welcome in 1935. She received a bachelor's degree in history from Morgan State College in 1939, and completed a master's degree in history at New York University in 1943.
Between 1934 and 1945, Welcome t