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Front page of the Indianapolis Leader, one of Indiana's first African American newspapers. Newspaper rack with issues of the Gary Crusader in 2020. Various African American newspapers have been published in Indiana. The Evansville weekly Our Age, which was in circulation by 1878, is the first known African American newspaper in Indiana. [1]
Pages in category "African-American mayors in Indiana" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The first African-American mayors were elected during Reconstruction in the Southern United States beginning about 1867. African Americans in the South were also elected to many local offices, such as sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and state offices such as legislatures as well as a smaller number of federal offices.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Fort Wayne Councilwoman Sharon Tucker was chosen Saturday as the new mayor of Indiana’s second most populous city, and its first Black leader, during a caucus to ...
First African-American and First woman elected Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates: Adrienne A. Jones First African-American elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Juliana Stratton. 2019; First African-American elected Attorney General of Kentucky: Daniel Cameron First Surgeon General for the State of California: Nadine Burke Harris ...
Detroit's first Black mayor took office 50 years ago in January. One off-the-cuff line in his inaugural speech has been debated ever since. Flashback: What Coleman Young really meant when he said ...
Jun. 17—VALDOSTA — Joseph "Sonny" Vickers, a longtime Valdosta city councilman, local businessman and the Azalea City's first Black mayor, died Thursday, according to city officials.