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Alexander Lucius Twilight was an American educator, politician, and minister. He was the first African American to earn a college degree from an American College at Middlebury College in 1823. He is the first African American elected to serve in a state legislature, the Vermont House of Representatives in 1836.
From 1900 to 1959 setbacks for African Americans occurred following the Democrat Party's restoration of white supremacy and political control across the South. These Redeemers , who undid Reconstruction era policies, retook control of local, state, and federal offices, restoring white supremacy across the South in government and civil life.
First African-American lieutenant governor of Maryland and first elected to statewide office in Maryland: Michael Steele (see also: 2009) 2004; First African-American District Attorney in California: Kamala Harris (San Francisco) (see also: 2010, 2017) First African-American Oklahoma Supreme Court justice: Tom Colbert
First African-American female mayor: Lelia Foley, Taft, Oklahoma [3] First African-American female mayor of a major satellite city and first African American woman mayor in California: Doris A. Davis, Compton, California [41] First African American to be elected mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan: Lyman Parks (see also: 1971)
McCabe "acquired a 320-acre (1.3 km 2) tract near Guthrie, Oklahoma, which became the town of Langston about 1892". [6] The city was an all-black area ten miles northeast of Guthrie. The city was named after John Mercer Langston, a black Virginia Congressman who had pledged his support for a black college in Langston City
Lelia Foley-Davis (born November 7, 1942), formerly known as Lelia Foley, is an American politician who served as mayor of Taft, Oklahoma. [1] Elected in 1973, she has been described as the first African-American woman elected mayor in the United States.
State College Area School Board appoints district’s first African American superintendent. Keely Doll. March 14, 2023 at 7:09 AM. Nabil K. Mark/SCASD.
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