• 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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    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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    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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    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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    The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges...
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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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  • president of the University of Chicago William Harper (Louisiana politician), state senator (African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction...
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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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  • Robert Fletcher (North Carolina politician) (category Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives)
    attending the Richmond County Republican Conventions and giving a speech at the 1876 event. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction...
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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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  • William Beverly Nash (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
    propaganda to disenfranchise African Americans. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Niven, Steven J. (2013). "Nash...
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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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    Anderson Boyd (politician) (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
    County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1875. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "Anderson...
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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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  • Samuel Petty (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
    that those who did not were fired. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Brown, Canter (1998). Florida's Black Public...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country. The movement had its origins in the Reconstruction era during the late 19th century and had its modern...
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    William R. Landers (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
    militia. He opposed the privilege tax bill. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana...
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  • Majority) African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866 African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era List of...
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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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  • 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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    George Washington (Mississippi politician) (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
    "mulatto". African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "George Washington – Against All Odds". "Members of Legislature". The Clarion-Ledger...
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    Armistead S. Nickens (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
    and Carters Millpond. In 1990, a portrait of hims was presented to the Lancaster Court, where it now hangs. African-American officeholders during and...
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  • Cornelius J. Jones (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
    of his and his sister's family papers and several photographs of him. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Wikisource...
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  • Amos Drane (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
    Panola Star newspaper. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "Mississippi Official and Statistical Register". April...
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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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