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Mary Green (ca 1840s – 1912) is recognized as the first African-American settler to the Arizona Territory. A formerly enslaved woman from the American south, she later became the first black pioneer to own land in Tempe, Arizona and the mother of the first African-American child born in Arizona. Today, Tempe's Mary and Moses Green Park is ...
African-American people in Arizona politics (2 C, 1 P) H. ... Pages in category "African-American history of Arizona" The following 10 pages are in this category, out ...
Lincoln Johnson Ragsdale Sr. (July 27, 1926 – June 9, 1995) was an influential leader in the Phoenix-area Civil Rights Movement.Known for his outspokenness, Ragsdale was instrumental in various reform efforts in the Valley, including voting rights and the desegregation of schools, neighborhoods, and public accommodations.
African-American history of Arizona (3 C, 10 P) M. ... Pages in category "African Americans in Arizona" This category contains only the following page.
1 st African-American men elected to the Arizona House of Representatives: 1951 Ethel Maynard: 1 st African-American woman elected to the Arizona House of Representatives: 1966 Cloves Campbell Sr. 1 st African-American man elected to the Arizona State Senate: 1966 Carolyn Walker: 1 st African-American woman elected to the Arizona State Senate: 1987
As protests rock the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, there is a notable absence in the national public discourse: African American community ...
African American Urban History since World War II. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-46512-8. Historical Studies of Urban America. Whitaker, Matthew C. "The rise of Black Phoenix: African-American migration, settlement and community development in Maricopa County, Arizona 1868–1930." Journal of Negro History (2000) 85#3 pp. 197–209.
Historian Vincent Tucker, president of the William Tucker 1624 Society, learned about his ancestors' history prior to being enslaved in the United States during a trip to Angola.