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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.
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 ...
William Bennett Scott Sr. (died 1885) was a pioneering newspaper founder and publisher, mayor, and civil rights campaigner who helped found Freedman’s Normal Institute in Maryville, Tennessee. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was the first African American to run a newspaper in Tennessee and had the only newspaper in Blount County, Tennessee for 10 years. [ 1 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...