The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920Various
History
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
Various
African Americans -- Periodicals
Name County
Henry P. Jacobs Adams
Reuben Kendrick Amite
Joseph Smothers Claiborne
Thomas McCain DeSota
Monroe Bell Hinds
William Johnson Hinds
F. Stewart Holmes
Richard Griggs Issaquena
William Landers Jefferson
Alfred Handy Madison
Arthur Brooks Monroe
A. K. Davis Noxubee
Randle Nettles Oktibbeha
John Cocke Panola
H. C. Carter Warren
F. D. Shadd Warren
J. H. Morgan Washington
H. M. Foley Wilkinson
James M. Dixon Yazoo
R. W. Houston Issaquena
John R. Lynch Adams
G. W. Gayles Bolivar
Emanuel Handy Copiah
J. H. Johnson DeSota
Charles Reese Hinds
H. H. Truehart Holmes
Perry Howard Holmes
James D. Cessar Jefferson
James J. Spelman Madison
James Hill Marshall
William Holmes Monroe
Isham Stewart Noxubee
James H. Piles Panola
Gilbert Smith Tunica
W. H. Mallory Warren
Charles W. Bush Warren
John D. Webster Washington
George W. White Wilkinson
F. D. Wade Yazoo
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS FOR MISSISSIPPI
Josiah T. Settle was a member of the House from Panola in 1883-84.
G. W. Gayles was a member of the House 1873-77 and a member of the
Senate 1877 to some time after 1886. He was the last Negro to be a
member of the Mississippi Senate. For sketch of his career see
Simmons' _Men of Mark_, 379-381.
Garner, _Reconstruction in Mississippi_, page 294, gives Negro members
of the Mississippi Legislature for 1873 as Senate, 9; House, 55. On
page 402, for 1876, Senate, 5; House, 16. Total membership, Senate,
37. Total membership, House, 116.
NEGRO MEMBERS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA RECONSTRUCTION CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTIONS, 1868 AND 1875
Dates of the Conventions January 14-March 17, 1868, and September
6-October 11, 1875. Total members of each Convention 120. Negro
members, 13 in Convention of 1868, and 5 in Convention of 1875.
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