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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
The police and the rioters had a large standoff, where the police made many arrests. [4] Almost at the same time of the mass arrests, civilian snipers started to shoot from the rooftop of the Lockefield Garden Building. [3] They grazed a detective, Al Watkin, and shot Andrew Martin, a Black resident, in the leg.
A judge has described a man who has been convicted of posting abusive messages about Northern Ireland's first black mayor as "a right wing, racist conspiracy theorist". Kevin Barry McIntyre, 31 ...
Stokes was the first elected African American mayor of a major American city (Cleveland was, at the time, the ninth largest city in the United States). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His election came alongside the election of Richard G. Hatcher in the 1967 Gary, Indiana, mayoral election .
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 ...