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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]
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
Lawrence Mayor-Elect Deb Whitfield is Marion County's first Black and first woman mayor, but she didn't think of the title when she decided to run. 'Breaking barriers': How Deb Whitfield became ...
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 ...
She was the first black woman mayor in Mississippi in 1976 when elected the mayor of Mayersville. [3] In November 2013, 138 black women were U.S. mayors. [4] In later years, the NCBM suffered from financial difficulties, and filed for bankruptcy in early 2014 after the controversial tenure of Kevin Johnson, then mayor of Sacramento, as NCBM ...