John R. Lynch - Wikipedia
WEBJohn Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 – November 2, 1939) was an American writer, attorney, military officer, author, and Republican politician who served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives and represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives.
John R. Lynch | Civil War veteran, Reconstruction leader, …
WEBSep 6, 2024 · John R. Lynch (born Sept. 10, 1847, Concordia Parish, La., U.S.—died Nov. 2, 1939, Chicago, Ill.) was a Black politician after the American Civil War who served in the Mississippi state legislature and U.S. House of Representatives and was prominent in Republican Party affairs of the 1870s and ’80s. Born into slavery, Lynch was freed during ...
Chronicle of Reconstruction: The Story of John R. Lynch
WEBFeb 8, 2016 · John Roy Lynch was an American politician, writer, attorney, and military officer, who was born into slavery, gained freedom in 1863 and was subsequently elected to both the Mississippi House of Representatives and the U.S. House of Representatives.
(1875) Congressman John R. Lynch, “Speech on the Civil
WEBJan 28, 2007 · Born enslaved in Louisiana in 1847, John Roy Lynch eventually served as a U.S. Congressman from Mississippi from 1873 to 1877 and during an abbreviated term of one year in 1882-1883. Prior to his term in Congress he had served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
John R. Lynch, Mississippi Politician born - African American Registry
WEBAlways active in the Republican Party, Lynch was a delegate to the national Republican Conventions of 1872, 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1900. He was temporary chairman in 1884, the first Black to preside over a national convention of a major U.S. political party.
John Roy Lynch And the Battle Over Reconstruction before *Black ...
WEBLynch was an African American politician from Mississippi. Serving in the State House of Representatives (and as the first African American Speaker of the House in Mississippi’s history in 1872) and later in the United States Congress, Lynch had a unique perspective on the events of Reconstruction.
Lawmaker John Roy Lynch warned about rewriting Black history
WEBApr 27, 2024 · A century before today’s fights on book bans and history curriculums, pioneering Black lawmaker John Roy Lynch sought to correct the record on Reconstruction.
Representative John Roy Lynch | Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
WEBIn Congress, Lynch argued for the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which banned discrimination in public accommodations. He served three terms, overcoming voter intimidation and vote tampering by his Democratic opponents.
WEBBorn into slavery fourteen years before the beginning of the Civil War, Lynch rose to become an influential Republican Congressman during Reconstruction. His experience as a local, state, and federal officeholder gave him incomparable insight into the triumphs and tragedies of the Reconstruction period. But he was not stirred to publish his.
John Roy Lynch - Mississippi Encyclopedia
WEBA planter, Reconstruction-era politician, Republican civil servant, and important historian, John Roy Lynch was born on 10 September 1847 on Tacony plantation, near the town of Vidalia, Louisiana, in Concordia Parish. The biracial progeny of plantation manager Patrick Lynch, an Irish immigrant, and slave Catherine White, Lynch followed his mother’s status into slavery. While saving […]
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