Jackson Hall - Kentucky State University

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This file appears in: Charles W. Anderson, Jr.
Jackson Hall - Kentucky State University

Anderson attended what is now Kentucky State University before graduating from Wilberforce University in Ohio. Jackson Hall at Kentucky State University is shown in this image. Photograph courtesy of Stuart Sanders.

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…