Charlton "Charles" Hunt Tandy (c. 1836 – 1919) was an African American volunteer militia officer in Missouri, lawyer, newspaper publisher, state legislator-elect, public official, and civil rights activist.
Tandy was born in Lexington, Kentucky in about 1836 and was named after the city's first mayor Charlton Hunt.
[1] He worked to integrate streetcars (horse-drawn at the time) in St. Louis, including organizing a boycott after legal injunctions failed to stop discriminatory practices.
[3] He led protest of the siting of Sumner High School in a heavily polluted area in close proximity to a lead works, lumber and tobacco warehouses, and the train station as well as an area of brothels.
[1] The State Historical Society of Missouri has a collection of his papers.