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Frank P. Brooks

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Frank P. Brooks (September 22, 1850 - ?) was a farmer and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Sharkey County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1886 to 1888.[1]

He was born in Madison County, Mississippi[1] He went to school in Vicksburg, Mississippi.[2]

He was elected and re-elected to the Board of Supervisors but was asked to resign during his second term by a committee of whites. This occurred during a period of "disturbances" in the area of Deer Creek during which at least eight African Americans were killed.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Frank P. Brooks – Against All Odds".
  2. ^ "Frank P. Brooks (Sharkey County) · Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi · Mississippi State University Libraries".
  3. ^ "Mississippi in 1875: Report of the Select Committee to Inquire into the Mississippi Election of 1875, with the Testimony and Documentary Evidence". 1876.