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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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
The Arizona Republican used the derogatory phrase in defending his proposed amendment to a military policy bill. Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty asked that his words be stricken from the record.
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Arizona. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first African American newspaper in Arizona was the Phoenix Tribune, which was published from 1918 to the 1940s. [1] Notable such newspapers in Arizona today include the Arizona Informant.