Document 135A: Barbara M. Watson, Vol. 3, Tape 34, Side A, National Women's Conference, International Women's Year National Women's Conference, November 18-21, 1977, Houston, Texas (Hayward, Calif.: Tape Services Unlimited, 1978), 42 audiocassettes of speeches and debates.

Barbara Watson, ca. 1980
"Presidential Appointees," poster insert, Women: A Documentary of Progress During the Administration of Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 (Washington D.C.: The White House, 1981).

   Barbara M. Watson (1918-1983) was the first African American and the first woman to serve as an Assistant Secretary of State. She earned a B.A. from Barnard College and a law degree from New York Law School. From 1964-1966, she served as the executive director of the New York City Commission to the United Nations. She joined the State Department in 1966. In 1969 President Johnson appointed her Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. In 1975, President Carter named her administrator for the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. In 1980 she served as ambassador to Malaysia; she retired from that post in 1981.

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