African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900

[1] Historian Canter Brown Jr. noted that in some states, such as Florida, the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after the end of Reconstruction in 1877.

The following is a partial list of African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900.

[14][15] Initially, they served under the 1868 Arkansas Constitution that granted them the right to vote and hold office.

[42] The Mississippi Plan was part of an organized campaign of terror and violence used by the Democratic Party and Ku Klux Klan to disenfranchise African Americans in Mississippi, block them from holding office, end Reconstruction, and restore white supremacy in the state.

[59][60] During Reconstruction, South Carolina was the only state whose legislature was majority African American.

[90] Only one African American served in the Tennessee Legislature during the 1870s, but more than a dozen followed in the 1880s as Republicans retook the governorship.