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John Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 – November 2, 1939) was an American writer, attorney, military officer, author, and Republican politician who served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives and represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives.
John R. Lynch was born into slavery in 1847 and was freed in 1863 after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.He entered politics shortly after the end of the Civil War, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1869, and was made speaker of the house in 1872.
First African-American (and first woman), appointed director of the Peace Corps: Carolyn R. Payton; First African-American drafted to play professional basketball, first woman to dunk in a professional women's game: Cardte Hicks [264] First African-American woman in the U.S. Cabinet: Patricia Roberts Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban ...
John R. Lynch: 1 st African-American man to serve as speaker of any state lower house Mississippi's 6th District (Created by State Legislature) 1873 1883 Republican Minnie Buckingham Harper: 1 st African-American woman to serve in any state legislature Rep. from Keystone, West Virginia: 1928 1930 Crystal Bird Fauset
First African-American Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and of any state legislature: John R. Lynch First African American elected to the Tennessee General Assembly: Sampson W. Keeble. 1876; First African American elected to the Illinois General Assembly: John W. E. Thomas. 1878
The Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library is a branch of the Denver Public Library in Denver, Colorado, in the United States that opened in 2003 and serves the Five Points neighborhood. It is also a research library with collections focusing on the history of African Americans in Denver and the American West. As of 2017, the library ...
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the U.S. State of Colorado. It includes both current and historical newspapers. Many of the historical newspapers were published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the number of African Americans in Colorado rose from 1,163 in 1870 to 11,453 in 1910. [1]
Pages in category "African-American history in Denver" ... Black American West Museum and Heritage Center; Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library; C.