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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.
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 ...
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 ...
First individual African-American woman as subject on the cover of Life magazine: Dorothy Dandridge, November 1, 1954 [212] First African-American page for the U.S. Supreme Court, and first to be enrolled in the Capitol Page School: Charles V. Bush [213]
First African-American woman elected to the Louisiana State Senate: Diana Bajoie. 1992; First African-American elected to a statewide office in Indiana: Pamela Carter, office of Attorney General First African-American Minnesota Supreme Court justice: Alan Page. 1993; First African-American senator from Illinois: Carol Moseley Braun. (Also first ...
Democrat Deb Whitfield had 52.4% of the vote and Republican David C. Hofmann had 47.6% of the vote. The Indiana Democrats declared victory for Whitfield, who will be the first Black mayor in ...
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 ...