Government – Local – Alderman
Edward A. Johnson (1860-1944)
Edward Austin Johnson was a businessman, historian, educator, lawyer and politician. Born enslaved in Raleigh, N.C. on November 23, 1860,...
Frederick Randolph Moore (1857-1943)
Frederick Randolph Moore, a political activist and journalist, was born in 1857 to his slave mother and white father in...
John Jones (1817-1879)
John Jones, apprentice tailor, writer, and politician was born in 1817 in Green City, North Carolina to a German father...
Gary Franks (1953- )
When Gary Franks was elected to Congress in 1990, he was the first black representative from Connecticut and the first...
