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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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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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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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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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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Hal B. Burton (category African-American state legislators in Arkansas)
lothario" and accused of being a womanizer. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era State, Arkansas Office of the Secretary...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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representing the third senatorial district as a Republican for the 1873, 1874 and 1875 sessions. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction...
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Pierre G. Deslondes (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
Parish. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Santoro, Nicholas J. (June 19, 2006). Atlas of Slavery and Civil Rights:...
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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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Dublin Walker (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
convicted of conspiracy to cheat and defraud. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era Annie Walker Blackwell Senate,...
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Civil rights movement (redirect from African-American Civil Rights Movement)
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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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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Barney Burton (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
in the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1868 along with Sancho Sanders and Barney Humphries. 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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W. T. J. Hayes (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
Cawthorn, Richard Falkner and three state senators). African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era North Carolina General Assembly...
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Patrick T. Price (category African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era)
from 1845 to 1847 and died in 1890. He was also a reverend. African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era "Encyclopedia of...
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Most African Americans are of West African and coastal Central African ancestry, with varying amounts of Western European and Native American ancestry...
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