Henry Mayson (born c. 1835, also known as Henry Mason) was a delegate to the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and a state legislator in Mississippi. [1]
Mason was a leader in the African American community in Vicksburg, Mississippi. [2] He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and edited the Colored Citizen. [3] It was the first of several newspapers for African Americans published in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. [4] He was one of the founders of a benevolent aid society in Bolivar County in 1871. [5] A 1910 publication of the Mississippi Historical Society described him as an illiterate former African American political leader living in Monticello, Mississippi [6] and referred to him as "old darkery". [6]
References
- ^ "Henry Mayson – Against All Odds".
- ^ "henry mason mississippi - Google Search". www.google.com.
- ^ Thompson, Julius Eric (July 2, 2001). Black Life in Mississippi: Essays on Political, Social, and Cultural Studies in a Deep South State. University Press of America. ISBN 9780761819226 – via Google Books.
- ^ Suggs, Henry L. (1993). "Reviewed work: The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985, Julius e. Thompson". The Business History Review. 67 (4): 651–653. doi: 10.2307/3116813. JSTOR 3116813. S2CID 157781396.
- ^ "Laws of the State of Mississippi". Richard C. Langdon. July 2, 1871 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Society, Mississippi Historical (July 2, 1910). "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society" – via Google Books.
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