Angie Brooks (1928 - 2007) Angie Brooks is known for her role as a Liberian diplomat and lawyer, as well as her time as the president of the 24th session of the UN General Assembly. Brooks was born in Liberia, worked as a stenotypist in high school, then later became a law apprentice. She was able to raise the money to attend college at Shaw University in North Carolina, the later went on to study law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then completed her graduate law studies at London University. At the age of 25, she returned to Liberia as a counselor-at-law and was later appointed secretary of state. Brooks soon became involved with the United Nations and was the first woman, as well as the first African, to serve as president of the Trusteeship Council for the UN. When the UN presidency was open to an African delegate based on the rotation, Brooks campaigned and won the position, becoming the third African to serve as president, the second woman, and the first African woman president. Brooks has advocated the advancement of women, especially Africans, through the UN and the International Federation of Women Lawyers. She has also heavily participated in raising children through the foster system, as she was a foster child in her youth. [W]e have to nurse it and cherish it and cultivate it, or else we shall one day perish and not even the moon or the knowledge of space will save us. - Angie Brooks on the imperfections and functions of the UN.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:16:47 +0000
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