Kentucky State Capitol

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Kentucky State Capitol

Charles W. Anderson served in the state legislature in Frankfort. This image shows the state capitol building in 1920, about 15 years before Anderson was elected to this first term of office. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Charles W. Anderson, Jr.

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1964 in Louisville notes the political career of Charles W. Anderson, Jr., the first African American elected to a Southern state legislature in the twentieth century. During the Reconstruction era, a number of African…