Name County Elijah Baldwin Wilcox W. H. Blevins Dallas Matt Boyd Perry H. V. Cashin Montgomery Elijah Cook Montgomery Charles Fagan Montgomery W. D. Gaskin[5] Lowndes Captain Gilmer Montgomery C. E. Harris Dallas A. W. Johnson Macon Samuel Lee Lowndes G. S. W. Lewis Perry Jacob Martin Dallas P. Matthews Bullock G. W. Allen Bullock Willis Merriweather Wilcox George Patterson Macon Bristo W. Reese Hale Robert Reid Sumter C. S. Smith Bullock Manly Wynne Hale H. A. Carson[6] Lowndes E. W. Locke[6] Wilcox
Year Name County Congress 1871-1873 Benjamin F. Turner Dallas 43rd 1873-1875 James T. Rapier Lauderdale 43rd 1875-1877 Jeremiah Haralson Dallas 44th
James H. Alston was a member of the Alabama Legislature for Macon County, 1868 and 1869-79. He was a shoemaker by trade and had formerly been a slave. It was reported that before the war there was a Military Company in the town of Tuskegee. The members of this company desired to have a drummer, and for this purpose they sent to South Carolina and bought James H. Alston. It was thought that he came from Charleston.
Henry Young was a member of the Alabama Legislature about 1868 and 1869-70. He was a slave who could read and write, having been taught by his master's children. He would, somewhat like Frederick Douglass, spell out the words on letters that he was called upon to deliver or to get from the post office, and in this way he also increased his ability to read.
NEGROES IN POLITICS IN ARKANSAS DURING RECONSTRUCTION
In the constitutional convention of 1868, there were 8 Negro delegates, that is, J. W. Mason, Richard Samuels, William Murphy, Monroe Hawkins, William Grey, James T. White, Henry Rector and Thomas P. Johnson. (_Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1868_, pages 2 to 5.)
Negroes in the Arkansas Legislature: Session April 2 to July 23, 1869, and session November 17, 1868, to April 10, 1869, were seven Negro members of whom J. W. Mason, the leading Negro in the Senate; W. H. Grey, leading Negro in the House. (_Daily Republican_, Oct. 1, 1868).
In the Legislature of January 2 to March 25, 1871, there were eleven Negro members: J. W. Mason and J. T. White in the Senate: J. M. Alexander, Austin Barrow, Conway Barbour, John Webb, Adam Johnson, Jeff Haskins, A. Mays, William Young, Carl Pope, A. J. Robinson, E. A. Fulton in the House. (_Daily Republican_, March 25, 1871.)
