1300 74. Prolgress to Power: The Legacy of New York’s Black Legislators
Edward A. Johnson1860-1944
Edward A. Johnson made history as the first elected Black person in the New York State Legislature. Born into slavery, Johnson was one of eleven children to Columbus and Eliza Johnson in North Carolina. He worked as an educator and lawyer in the South until 1907 when he moved to Harlem, New York. There, he established a successful law practice and soon became involved with the political community in Harlem.
In 1917, he was elected to the New York State Assembly with the help of the United Civic League’s campaign, an independent organization of Black men in Harlem rallying together to increase representation in government. During his time in the Assembly, Johnson chaired committees dedicated to issues surrounding city affairs, agriculture, and penal institutions. One of his most noteworthy achievements was sponsoring an Act to amend the 1913 Governor Levy Civil Rights Law that expanded the definition on where discrimination was prohibited in public facilities including hotels, restaurants, amusement parks, and more.
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MaryAnne11 ccclxxvi to Op i : Why are you blaming your fellow Jews with out condemning the real traitor to your religion? That is Bibi Netanyahu who continues to kill thousands of. Innocents without mercy? He is doing the same thing Adolph Hitler did.
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MaryAnne11 ccclxxviii to 375: Faith is between you and God. No one else. nf{{comment ….. as it should be in America the Beautiful.}}.
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Lisa558 ccclxxx to 375. : ““(I did this back in 2016, when my then friends were condemning Trump and “the morons who voted for him” - to my face.) “”
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fncceo cccxcix to 375. : You’re one of those.
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AzogtheDefiler cccxcix. to 399. : Democrats are disgusting people and 75% of Jews in America are Democrats.
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ding cdxiv to 412. : Democrats have been keeping blacks in economic bondage going on a century. •¥• Before that they kept them in real bondage.
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NotfooledbyW mccclxix. to 1368. : Do you have grandchildren Supercilious Ding? Are they allowed to read books by a black woman?
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ding mccclxx. to 1369. : Who is that
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Lisa558 mccclxxi to 1370 : Out of the blue on a thread about religion, he brings up a black professor at Howard and what she says about blacks, and introduces it by making an accusation of racism against you.
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Lisa558 mccclxxi : This is what libs do when they are losing an argument: default to calling their opponent a racist.
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ding mccclxxii. to 1371: Yep, that's how he operates.
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BreezeWood mccclxxiii. to 1371 & 1372. : 558 - the best indication of despotism is their knee jerk reactions making self rewarding comments for themselves and the assailed who quickly then endorses their senseless endorsement.
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NotfooledbyW mccclxix to 1368. regarding Dr Kenisha Grant, Howard University political science professor: •¥•.
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NotfooledbyW said: I asked Supercilious Ding if he has grandchildren and whether or not they are allowed to read books by a black woman?
I asked Supercilious Ding that question because of his accusations (see para. i. above and here
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I wonder where that supercilious bullshit comes from!
Dr. Keneshia Grant: So my book is primarily trying to kind of reshape the way we think about how Black folks get into the Democratic Party and we use the lens of the Great Migration to say all these people who could not participate in the past go to the North and in the North, they can participate. And so how do they show up in politics?
The first part is about how white politicians respond to the migrants.
One of my favorite stories is about a manwho lived in New York. His name was Edward Austin Johnson. So Edward Austin Johnson is from Raleigh, North Carolina. In Raleigh, North Carolina, he is elected to the city council in the year 1898 and he is a Republican in that story. He's in coalition with white Republicans and the white Republicans decide later that year that they don't want to work together with Black people anymore. Instead, they want to be in coalition with southern white Democrats who were kind of racist at the time, very racist at the time. And so as a part of that, he loses his seat on the city council.
He's not able to participate in politics in the same way, he's furious about it. So in 1907, he decides that he wants to move to New York City. And so he does. He moves here, he establishes a law practice, and he gets involved in politics kind of immediately. Ten years later he gets elected as the first {black} person to be seated in the New York state legislature..