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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.
First African-American elected lieutenant governor of New Jersey: Sheila Oliver [31] First African-American out trans woman to be elected to public office in the United States: Andrea Jenkins. 2018; First female African-American major-party candidate for governor: Stacey Abrams, Georgia
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 ...
In 1973, Atlanta, Georgia, elected Maynard Jackson the first black mayor of a major southern U.S. city. [2] By 2005, nearly every large U.S. city had a black mayor within the previous 30 years. [2] In April 1990, Unita Blackwell was elected the first woman president of the association. She was the first black woman mayor in Mississippi in 1976 ...
Later on Rizzo tried to run again; this time his main Democratic opponent was the first black mayor of Philadelphia, Wilson Goode. During this run he tried to connect more with Philadelphia's black population, which proved ineffectual as he won only three percent of the black vote and lost to Goode in a closely contested election.
In 1885, Daniel Rudd formed the Ohio Tribune, said to be the first newspaper "printed by and for Black Americans", which he later expanded into the American Catholic Tribune, purported to the first Black-owned national newspaper. [7] The Cleveland Gazette was established in the 1880s and continued for decades.
Was the first openly gay mayor elected in the United States of America. Was elected mayor of the City of Bunceton, Missouri April 1, 1980. Served a total of 26 years.