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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 ...
In 1953, Díaz became a candidate to serve on the Phoenix City Council. It was a time when Phoenix was segregated. Hispanics, African-Americans and Whites could only live in segregated neighborhoods. However, Díaz was elected and he became the first Hispanic to serve on the City Council and the first Hispanic to serve as Vice-Mayor of Phoenix.
First Hispanic American male (Arizona Appeals Court): Joe W. Contreras in 1979 [17] First African American male (Arizona Appeals Court): Cecil B. Patterson Jr. (1971) in 1985 [4] [18] [17] First Latino American male (Supreme Court of Arizona): John Lopez IV (1998): [19] First Latino American male to serve on (2016)
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
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.
That opportunity came after a Sept. 2021 meeting with Angola's President João Lourenço at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Tucker and members of his ...
First African Americans elected as judges in the state of New York: James S. Watson and Charles E. Toney [10] 1938; First African-American woman to be elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and to any state legislature: Crystal Bird Fauset. 1939; First African-American woman to own a cosmetology school in Iowa: Pauline Brown Humphrey [11 ...