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Sources needed

This article includes quite a few individuals that lack a Wikipedia article. I would love to see us fill in some of those deficits, even if we just create stubs as place holders. In the the meantime, any name that lacks an article, needs to have a source to remain included. I will try to fix some of these myself rather than outright deleting because these gentlemen are to important to leave out, but it is really important to comply with guidelines for reliability and sourcing in order for this article to have credibility. Rublamb (talk) 23:20, 10 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Rublamb I'm slowly working on them when I can and FloridaArmy has been working through them for a long time and has started many of the existing stubs. Most of the key 1865–1877 period ones are in "Freedom Lawmakers" but the rest I assumed were gathered from states lists etc but the sources just not noted in the sections when added. I've been trying to work though some state by state, but again just a matter of finding the time. Good work on your recent improvements. I do plan to keep working through these but unlikely to have much time for a while, but I'm sure we'll get there. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 09:33, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It will be a process, for sure. I went through Alabama and Arkansas yesterday, finding new names to add along the way. Amazingly, some of the new names had stub articles that don't mention that they were African-American. Rublamb (talk) 17:14, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes sometimes people have just treated them as a politician rather than an African-American politician, which in many ways is a good thing. I have even mostly written an article only to find it exists under a different name already a couple of times, so I'm sure there are many other existing articles to link into here. KylieTastic (talk) 17:44, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The name issue is real. There are spelling variations between sources, nicknames, as well as fist name that are abbreviated. There is even one gentleman who changed his name. In this process, I have discovered existing articles to link to which is great (as in we don't have to create that article). Strangely enough, a general search in Google often brings up the right Wikipedia article; this technique works especially well with abbreviated names. Rublamb (talk) 17:52, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I now have a source for all but three of the individual lacking an article in Wikipedia. These outliers are all in the Georgia legislature, so there might be a single source for all three. Rublamb (talk) 23:27, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Georgia Constitutional Convention

This article is missing 20 delegates to the 1867 Georgia Constitutional Convention according to sources about the event. I cannot find any sources online that list delegates other than a period publication that does not indicate race. I cross-checked that against the article's existing list of elected officials and started a list with the matches I found. If you know of an online source that I am missing, please let me know and I will update the list. If you have access to a print source, please update this list. Thanks. Rublamb (talk) 03:39, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

William L. Martin

William L. Martin was removed. He is noted here and here representing Cook County, Illinois. Here's another source with some biographical information on him. FloridaArmy (talk) 17:06, 19 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The third source is perfect. He has been added back! Rublamb (talk) 21:26, 20 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

John Mayo

Adding a note here in case someone working on this article wants to develop this further into an article. John Mayo (born 1838–?); John Mayo (politician) [Wikidata]), an African American member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Rapides Parish; father-in-law of John Baptist Lafargue^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] PigeonChickenFish (talk) 08:47, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Official Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana. Louisiana Legislature House of Representatives. The State. 1872.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ Gill, Charles G.; Thorpe, Thomas H. (1856). Louisiana Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Louisiana Supreme Court. West Publishing Company.
^ Mather, Frank Lincoln (April 19, 1915). "Who's Who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent ; Vol. 1". p. 169 – via Google Books.
^ Louisiana History. Louisiana Historical Association. 1990.
^ "The Caucasian, page 2". Newspapers.com. 10 October 1874. Retrieved 2023-12-03.

Additions

Are the additions made [1] here legitimate? FloridaArmy (talk) 14:35, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes; as I noted in the description, I took them from the cited David R. Poynter Legislative Research Library document. There are many more, but I haven't slogged through the whole document (although I encourage others to do so and update the article). Why do you ask? AuH2ORepublican (talk) 15:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edward Hall (Florida politician) of Lake City testified he was elected to the legislature [African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era here]. FloridaArmy (talk) 14:09, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Official Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana. Louisiana Legislature House of Representatives. The State. 1872.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[2] Gill, Charles G.; Thorpe, Thomas H. (1856). Louisiana Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Louisiana Supreme Court. West Publishing Company.

[:02-3] Mather, Frank Lincoln (April 19, 1915). "Who's Who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent ; Vol. 1". p. 169 – via Google Books.

[4] Louisiana History. Louisiana Historical Association. 1990.

[5] "The Caucasian, page 2". Newspapers.com. 10 October 1874. Retrieved 2023-12-03.

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