A paperback booklet printed in black ink on white paper. The front cover is a black-and-white photograph of a person's bare right muddy foot. At the top of the front cover is the text in white print [All proceeds to the Southern Christian Leadership…
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Thomas A. Cotton was a state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Noxubee County in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1874 and 1875. Historican Eric Foner lists him as P. A. Cotton in Freedom's Lawmakers and documents him as African…
Thomas A. Sykes (born c. 1835) was an American politician and tax official. An African-American, he was born into slavery. After the Civil War, he served as a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for four one-year terms…
Reverend Thomas Alexander Wright Sr. (March 26, 1920 – December 9, 2014) was a civil rights leader and former president of the Gainesville, Florida chapter of the NAACP in the early 1960s. Wright was a prominent religious leader who preached throughout…
Thomas Bayne (c. 1824 – July 5, 1888) (also known as "Sam Nixon") was an African American Republican politician. Born a slave, he became a dental assistant and Underground Railroad conductor in Norfolk, Virginia, before escaping to New Bedford,…
Thomas Beck (born c. 1819, date of death unknown) was an American Republican politician who served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives. Various sources list his birthplace as Kentucky, Mississippi, or Virginia. He moved to Texas about 1842…
Thomas Hency Brewer, Sr. (1894–1956) was an African-American physician, who was instrumental in the civil rights movement in Columbus, Georgia during the early- to mid-twentieth century, before he was assassinated in 1956.
Thomas A. Cage (c. 1845 – December 10, 1896) was a state legislator who served in the Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era and the Louisiana House of Representatives and again the Louisiana State Senate post reconstruction.
Thomas Whitmarsh Cardozo (December 19, 1838 – April 13, 1881) was an American educator, journalist, writer, and public official during the Reconstruction Era in the United States. He adopted the name Civis as a nom de plume and wrote as a correspondent for…
Thomas Dalton (1794–1883) was a free African American raised in Massachusetts who was dedicated to improving the lives of people of color. He was active with his wife Lucy Lew Dalton, Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the founding or ongoing activities of…
Thomas H. Digges (died June 6, 1887) was a state representative during the Reconstruction era in Alabama. He represented Barbour County. He worked as a field hand.
Thomas W. Dortch Jr. (born April 12, 1950 in Toccoa, Georgia - February 15, 2023) was an American civic leader and businessman based in Atlanta, Georgia. By 1990, he became the first black man to be chief administrator for a U.S. Senator (Sam Nunn).
Thomas Ezekiel Miller (June 17, 1849 – April 8, 1938) was an American educator, lawyer and politician. After being elected as a state legislator in South Carolina, he was one of only five African Americans elected to Congress from the South in the Jim Crow…
Thomas Frank Cassels (c. 1845 – April 2, 1903) was an attorney and politician in Memphis, Tennessee who served a term in the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 42nd General Assembly (1881–1882). A Republican, he represented Shelby County,…
Thomas Henry Figures (August 6, 1944 – January 22, 2015) was an American attorney and judge. He was the first African American assistant district attorney and assistant United States Attorney from Mobile, Alabama. Figures earned convictions on two members…
Thomas Fountain Blue (March 6, 1866 – November 10, 1935) was a minister, educator, and civic leader who led the Colored Branches of the Louisville Free Public Library (LFPL) and was an early trainer of African-American librarians. Blue was the first…
Thomas Freeman (June 27, 1919 – June 6, 2020) was an American lecturer in religion, a preacher, and a debate coach. His students included Martin Luther King Jr. at Morehouse College and U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan at Texas Southern University.
Rev. Thomas H. Jones (born 1806) was born a slave Wilmington, North Carolina and was a prominent African-American abolitionist in antebellum America. Jones escaped slavery, traveled to Canada and subsequently relocated to Worcester, Massachusetts.…
Thomas J. Clarke was a farmer, state legislator and constable in Alabama. Clarke was born in South Carolina 1842/3. In August 1872, he was nominated to run for the house as a Radical Republican. He represented Barbour County, Alabama in the Alabama House…
Thomas M. Allen was an American Baptist preacher who served as a representative in the Georgia Assembly during the Reconstruction Era. He was African American. He was elected in 1868, representing Jasper County as a Republican. Allen escaped assassination…
Thomas McCain (born c. 1827) was an American politician from DeSoto County, Mississippi. An African-American officeholder during the Reconstruction era, he represented DeSoto County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 to 1875 and was…
