First African-American elected mayors and state legislators in the South since Reconstruction (user search)
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« on: April 13, 2023, 02:08:13 PM »

Who were the first elected mayors and state legislators in the South since Reconstruction? It's difficult to find because there are so many cities and state legislative districts. I know that SCOTUS struck down whites only primaries in 1944 in Smith v Allwright.
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« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2023, 06:07:26 PM »

I don’t know how you count border states, but this guy was elected to the Kentucky Legislature in the 1930s.  West Virginia might have had a few African-American legislators earlier, as it seems like that state never really tried to suppress the vote to any great extent.

I don’t know if any got elected in the old Confederacy pre-1960s (post Reconstruction), but I’m not completely sure about Tennessee, since African-Americans had long been able to vote fairly easily in such cities as Memphis.
Charles W. Anderson Jr. (R-KY) was in fact the first to be elected to a Southern state legislature since Reconstruction. Who was the first to be elected mayor of a Southern city since Reconstruction?
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