Way back when parishes were created, emerging government leaders thought it might be a good idea to have someone keep track of legal matters and property. During Reconstruction, roughly between 1865 and 1877, Black people held elective offices in Louisiana, including “Radical Republican” acting Gov. P.B.S. Pinchback and Lt. Gov. Oscar Dunn, respectively the state’s first Black governor and first Black lieutenant governor. Local governance was important, so there were several clerks in Orleans Parish, some reports say as many as seven or eight. It’s unclear how many of those clerks were Black, but New Orleans had a substantial population...
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