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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.
John Wilchie: [18] First African American male to serve as a Justice Court Judge in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi; Clell Ward: [12] First African American to serve as the Assistant District Attorney of Washington County, Mississippi (1975)
The Dunning School was criticized by John R. Lynch in his 1913 book The Facts of Reconstruction, in which he argued that African American politicians had made many gains since the end of the Civil War and that those gains were of their own accord. [13]
It had its beginnings in 1817 when John Mason Peck and the former enslaved John Berry Meachum began holding church services for African Americans in St. Louis. [22] Meachum founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827. Although there were ordinances preventing blacks from assembling, the congregation grew from 14 people at its founding to ...
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
Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era, published in 2017 by Louisiana State University Press, edited by Carole Emberton and Bruce E. Baker, with an introduction by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, is a collection of ten essays by historians of the Reconstruction era who examine the different collective memories of different social groups from the time of ...
John Adams Hyman – North Carolina 1875–1877 (also North Carolina Senate and North Carolina Constitutional Convention) [2] John Mercer Langston – Virginia 1890–1891 (also U.S. Minister to Haiti) [2] Jefferson F. Long – Georgia 1871 [2] John R. Lynch – Mississippi 1873–1877, 1882–1883 (also speaker of the Mississippi House) [2]