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The California senator's history-making win also represents the millions of women in the demographics often overlooked, historically underrepresented, and systematically ignored who are now the recipients of that new power for the first time in the country's 200-plus-year history. Harris' triumph, in particular, marks a new high point in a career of barrier-breaking accomplishments, from San Francisco district attorney to California attorney general to just the second-ever Black female US senator."That I am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations before me," Harris said during her Democratic National Convention acceptance speech in August, mentioning women such as Constance Baker Motley, Fannie Lou Hamer and Shirley Chisholm."Women and men who believed so fiercely in the promise of equality, liberty, and justice for all," she said. Her time at Howard, where she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., profoundly shaped her political vision."You did not have to be confined by anyone else's idea of what it means to be Black," she told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" in September."You could be a fine arts student and also be class president. You could be a member of a sorority and be in student government and want to go to law school, and it encouraged you to be your full self". Over the course of her White House bid, Harris never shied away from mentioning that people attempted to box her in or doubted her as she sought to pave a path in politics."I did not listen.
