More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy...
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The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated...
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Robert John Palmer (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
along with eight other Reconstruction Era legislators. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "Robert John Palmer (1849-1928)...
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Fleming, Member, Cleveland City Council African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg...
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commissioner African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era List of African-American officeholders (1900–1959) List of African–American...
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president of the University of Chicago William Harper (Louisiana politician), state senator (African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction...
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2012. Retrieved July 27, 2012. Bailey, Richard. Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867–1878. New South Books, 2006. ISBN 1-58838-189-7...
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John Adams Hyman (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
representatives African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "Hyman, John Adams". Biographical Directory of the United States...
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Greene E. Evans (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
in Shelby County, Tennessee. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era African Americans in Tennessee Ward, Andrew (April...
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Edward I. Alexander (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
received votes for a seat in the Florida Senate in 1888. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Brown, Canter (August 9...
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Charles Caldwell (politician) (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
plaque commemorates his life. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "Charles Caldwell – Against All Odds". "Caldwell...
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Florida portal African Americans in Georgia (U.S. state) Black Seminoles African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era History of...
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list of African Americans who have served in the United States Senate. The Senate has had 12 African-American elected or appointed officeholders. Two each...
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James G. Patterson (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
Mississippi Plan African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "James G. Patterson – Against All Odds". "The First Black Legislators...
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Mitchell Goggins (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1870 to 1872 and 1874 to 1876. Columbus Goggins was his father. African-American officeholders during...
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Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
among the most powerful black officeholders in the state during Reconstruction. An African American who served during the Reconstruction era, he was the first...
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Joseph Monroe (category Reconstruction Era)
Asia, Africa and Australia. Monroe and his wife, Jane, had two children. She was listed as a widow in 1900. African-American officeholders during and following...
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Mentor Dotson (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
children included Helen Elsie Austin. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Foner, Eric (1996-08-01). Freedom's Lawmakers:...
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William A. Feilds (category African-American state legislators in Tennessee)
of Jillian Hervey. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Historical records do not agree on the spelling of his surname;...
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Henry P. Scott (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
County in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1877. Records vary on his birth year. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction...
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Caeser P. Chisolm (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
accounts to the Slave Narrative Project. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "South Carolina Legislature Online - Search"...
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Henry E. Hayne (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
Carolina during the Reconstruction era. Born into slavery, he served in the South Carolina Senate and as Secretary of State of South Carolina in the 1870s...
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Miles Connor (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
complications associated with asthma. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Jackson, Luther Porter (1945). Negro Office-holders...
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Nicholas Burton (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
disputed election with Cain Sartain. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner page...
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The first African-American mayors were elected during Reconstruction in the Southern United States beginning about 1867. African Americans in the South...
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William H. Holland (politician) (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
Holland Avenue. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Albany Manual...
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George Washington Witherspoon (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
Pensacola, Florida from 1885 to 1889. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Florida's Second Generation of Black Leadership...
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Benjamin Chiles (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
Carolina and relocated to Mississippi in 1837, with John M. Chiles. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "Benjamin...
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Joseph Smothers (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
Mississippi. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "Joseph Smothers (Claiborne County) · Against All Odds: The First Black...
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North Carolina Senate (category Use American English from September 2018)
(African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era). By 1874 four African Americans, all Republicans were in the body as Democrats...
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