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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 ...
Historically segregated African-American schools in Arizona (2 P) Pages in category "African-American history of Arizona" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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.
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)
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All of Mississippi's African American statewide officials and Senators took office during Reconstruction, as of 2022. Nevada 1 1 New Jersey 8 8 New Mexico 1 1 New York 9 9 North Carolina 4 4 Ohio 3 3 Oklahoma 1 1 Oregon 1 1 Pennsylvania 1 1 South Carolina 5 1 1 7 Francis Lewis Cardozo held office as Secretary of State and State Treasurer. Texas 2 2
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
In 1989, Douglas Wilder became the first African-American elected governor in U.S. history. In 1992 Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate . There were 8,936 Black officeholders in the United States in 2000, showing a net increase of 7,467 since 1970.