William M. Hampton
Dr. William M. Hampton (died 1960) was an American physician and politician from North Carolina.[1] In 1951, Hampton became the first African-American elected to the Greensboro, North Carolina City Council. He was re-elected in 1953.[2]
Hampton was born in New Jersey and moved to Warnersville neighborhood of Greensboro in 1939. He attended Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. Because Hampton was elected to a formerly all-White City Council in a Jim Crow state, his election was a national news story and was covered by Time magazine and the New York Times.[3][4]
References[edit]
- ^ Chafe, William Henry (1981). Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. Oxford University Press. pp. 27, 28, 40, 68, 100. ISBN 9780195029192.
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- ^ Hairston, Otis L. (2003). Greensboro North Carolina. Arcadia Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 9780738515250. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ Powell, Lew. "'I held the same Bible… and I was perfectly happy' « North Carolina Miscellany". North Carolina Miscellany. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ "Five Elected Negroes Seated in Carolina". The New York Times. 8 May 1953. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
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