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Joycelyn Elders is appointed Surgeon General, the first Black American to hold this position.

Date: 1993

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Elders will promote sexual health education and increased access to contraception during her term, building on her work in the Arkansas Department of Public Health to pass a comprehensive health mandate that enforces a K-12 curriculum to educate students about sexual health and addiction prevention.

She will be forced to resign the following year after controversy over her progressive views on sex education breaks out.