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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.
Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician and diplomat of the Democratic Party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, and taking office on January 1, 1968, he was one of the first black elected mayors of a major U.S. city. [a]
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 .
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 Indianapolis Freeman (1884–1926) was the first illustrated black newspaper in the United States. [2] Founder and owner Louis Howland, who was soon replaced by Edward Elder Cooper , published its first print edition on November 20, 1884.
Jun. 17—VALDOSTA — Joseph "Sonny" Vickers, a longtime Valdosta city councilman, local businessman and the Azalea City's first Black mayor, died Thursday, according to city officials.
Freedom's Journal was the first newspaper in the United States to be owned, operated, published and edited by African Americans. [10] During his tenure as editor, Russwurm regularly included material about ancient and modern African history, providing readers on both sides of the Atlantic with a curated source of information about the continent.