Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Harlem is a city in Columbia County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Augusta metropolitan area. The population was 2,666 at the 2010 census, [4] up from 1,814 in 2000. This city was named after the neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan. [5]
Atlanta City Council members (33 P) Pages in category "Georgia (U.S. state) city council members" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr. (September 8, 1903 – August 22, 1964), was an African-American lawyer and communist who was elected in 1943 to the New York City Council, representing Harlem. He faced increasing opposition from outside Harlem after the end of World War II.
Pages in category "Harlem, Georgia" ... Sawdust, Georgia This page was last edited on 12 May 2024, at 11:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Black Harlemites took positions in the elected political infrastructure of New York starting in 1941 with the election of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to the City Council. He was easily elected to Congress when a congressional district was placed in Harlem in 1944, leaving his City Council seat to be won by another black Harlemite, Benjamin J. Davis.
Oscar Stanton De Priest, Cook County Board of Commissioners (1904–1908), Chicago City Council (1915–1917, 1943–1947) Louis B. Anderson, Chicago City Council (1923-1933) William L. Dawson, Chicago City Council (1933-1939) Earl B. Dickerson, Chicago City Council (1939-1943) Claude Holman, Chicago City Council (1955-1973)
Felicia A. Moore is an American politician who served as the president of the Atlanta City Council. She was elected to the office in a December 2017 runoff election. She previously held the post of City Council member for District 9, serving for 20 years. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Benjamin J. Davis – New York City councilman, ultimately sent to jail for violations of the Smith Act [37] Ossie Davis – actor and director; lived in Harlem in the late 1930s and mid-1940s; Sammy Davis Jr. – entertainer, actor, member of Rat Pack, born in Harlem Hospital in 1925 [58] Roy DeCarava – photographer, born in Harlem in 1919 [59]