Learn about the first African American men to serve on Mississippi’s state legislature, including those from Lowndes County, during and just after Reconstruction at "Against All Odds: The first Black legislators of Mississippi"
The site includes a list of legislators, alphabetical and by county, along with images, if available, histories, and primary source material about each individual.
To learn more visit https://much-ado.net/legislators/.
Created by DeeDee Baldwin, History Research Librarian with Mississippi State University.
Original source can be found here.
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