Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, an accomplished lawyer, publisher, and civil rights advocate, was elected city judge in Little Rock, Arkansas, becoming the first African American in the United States to be elected to a municipal judgeship. A prominent figure during Reconstruction, Gibbs broke racial barriers in law and politics, and his election marked a historic milestone in Black political empowerment in the post-Civil War South.
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