Inflation-adjusted economic indicator (price, return, salary etc.) reveals the true value of an indicator after removing the effects of inflation. Removing the effects of inflation from the indicator allows us to see , for example, the real change of an indicator without external economic forces influencing it.
Thomas had a reputation as guff and tough, a taskmaster as an administer who also remained a warm human being. Three years after Thomas became warden at HDM, James C. Harrison was named warden at the Brooklyn House of Detention for Men. Both were provisional appointments. Both titles were made permanent with formal swearing-in ceremonies April 29, 1969. Thomas is credited with the honor of being DOC s first African-American warden because his provisional appointment preceded Harrison s by three years, although both were sworn into their permanent titles the same day.
Allen, Macon Bolling (1816-1894) Macon Bolling Allen is believed to be the first black man in the United States who was licensed to practice law. Born Allen Macon Bolling in 1816 in Indiana, he grew up a free man. Bolling learned to read and write on his on his own and eventually landed his first a job as a schoolteacher where he further refined his skills. In the early 1840s Bolling moved from Indiana to Portland, Maine. There he changed his name to Macon Bolling Allen and became friends with local anti-slavery leader General Samuel Fessenden, who had recently begun a law practice. Fessenden took on Allen as an apprentice/law clerk.