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The Evansville weekly Our Age, which was in circulation by 1878, is the first known African American newspaper in Indiana. [1] Alternatively, some sources assign the title of first to the Indianapolis Leader [2] or the Logansport Colored Visitor, [3] both of which were first published in August 1879. A 1996 survey of Indiana's African American ...
Pages in category "African-American mayors in Indiana" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... This page was last edited on 12 January 2021 ...
First African-American elected to the Idaho Senate: Cherie Buckner-Webb. 2013; First African-American senator from South Carolina: Tim Scott [26] (Also the first African-American to serve both houses of the U.S. Congress.) First African-American woman to be appointed to a seat on the New York Court of Appeals: Sheila Abdus-Salaam.
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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 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.
Local figures to make the list in recent years include the city’s first Black mayor, Jim Cooper, who is now Sacramento County’s sheriff; and the city’s first Black police chief, Bobby Davis ...
Mayor of Cleveland, first black mayor of a major US city [5] Louis Stokes: Alpha Omega: First African-American Congressman from Ohio; civil rights lawyer; 51st Laurel Wreath Laureate [39] John F. Street: Philadelphia (PA) Alumni: Mayor of Philadelphia [34] Danny Tabor: Mayor of Inglewood, California [44] Bennie Thompson: Gamma Rho