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1356: 44: 582: 618: 678: 630: 594: 642: 654: 606: 666: 501:, was a segregated high school for African-American students, and the Gibbs Elementary School was also originally for African-American students, both in Little Rock in Arkansas and named after him. Additionally, the M. W. Gibbs Nursing Home, which was located at 2916 Center Street in Little Rock, was named in his honor, and . 570: 319:
passed discriminatory laws intended to discourage blacks from entering or staying in the state: they were deprived of the right to own property and were disqualified from giving evidence against a white person in court. All black people in California were required to wear distinctive badges. Angered
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store at 638 Clay Street in San Francisco, selling imported shoes and boots. In Gibbs's autobiography, "Shadow and Light" (1902), he mentions that, while living in San Francisco, he and Lester were successful in business but dealt with community ostracization and assaults. As African Americans in
336:. They comprised a major portion of the early frontier community. Gibbs became a naturalized British citizen in 1861, together with 52 other American blacks from the emigrant group. Gibbs worked as a merchant and also became involved in politics during his ten-year stay in Canada. 437:, whom he mentored. Hunt became the first African American to have a full career as a diplomat for the United States. Gibbs returned to the United States in 1901. He was selected as president of a largely African-American bank in Little Rock. 915: 1419: 286:, a trade that he had pursued in Philadelphia, but was discouraged by the racial discrimination that he faced. He then partnered with Nathan Pointer to sell clothes. In 1851, Gibbs, in partnership with 197:, and he worked in Victoria for ten years. Gibbs became the first black person elected to public office in British Columbia on November 16, 1866, upon winning a seat on the Victoria City Council. 1479: 553: 178:(April 17, 1823 – July 11, 1915) was an American-born Canadian politician, businessman, newspaper publisher, and advocate for black rights. He moved to California as a young man, during the 387:
After about a decade, Gibbs returned to the United States and settled in Little Rock. He read the law to become an attorney and passed the bar examination in 1870. Becoming active in the
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He became wealthy through his law practice and real estate investments. In 1897, Gibbs was appointed American consul to Madagascar. As an aide, he hired a friend of his daughter Ida's,
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Starting in 1858, Gibbs led an estimated six hundred to eight hundred African Americans, many with families, from California to British Columbia, where some settled on
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Martha A. Sandweiss, "Book review: 'Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunt and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin' by Adele Logan Alexander"
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Martha A. Sandweiss, "Book review: 'Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunt and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin' by Adele Logan Alexander"
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Gibbs was married and had two daughters with his wife, the former Maria Ann Alexander, during the decade in which they lived in British Columbia.
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Like tens of thousands of other men, Gibbs joined the California Gold Rush, having arrived in San Francisco in late 1850. He sought work as a
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McGinty, Doris E. "The Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression," Black perspectives in music, vol 7, no. 1, spring 1979.
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declared November 19 'Mifflin Wistar Gibbs Day' in recognition of Gibbs becoming the first black person elected to public office in
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In 1902, Gibbs purchased a property at 902 T Street, NW in Washington, D.C., at which his daughter, Harriet Gibbs Marshall, ran the
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California, they were disenfranchised and thus unable to sit on a jury, unable to testify in court, and denied the right to vote.
548: 475: 388: 124: 704: 302:, "the state's only African-American newspaper." He was later a proprietor, publisher, and contributor to another paper, the 308:. He was active in statewide conventions of black people in 1854, 1855, and 1857, and, together with Lester, stood against 1449: 822: 670: 434: 217: 560: 1250: 1089: 940: 403:, Louisiana. In 1873, Gibbs was elected city judge as a Republican, the first black judge elected in the United States. 396: 316: 1409: 1149: 775: 287: 340: 505: 486: 271: 190: 98: 43: 189:
Angered by discriminatory laws passed in California in 1858, he led a migration of African Americans that year to
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delegate to the Yale Convention, an important step toward British Columbia's decision to join Canada in the
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from 1852 to 1854. Daughter Ida Alexander Gibbs (1862–1957) earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in
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seat; he placed seventh in this race, missing winning a council seat by only four votes. He was elected to
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by these developments, Gibbs and two other African-American men went to British Columbia to meet with Sir
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Dillard, Tom W. (1976). ""Golden Prospects and Fraternal Amenities": Mifflin W. Gibbs's Arkansas Years".
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politics. In 1873, Gibbs became the first black judge elected in the United States. In 1897, during the
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Charles Hillinger, "Miners Left U.S. for Canada in 1858/ Blacks Found Gold Couldn't Buy Freedom"
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Ida met and became friends with William Henry Hunt, whom Mifflin Gibbs hired as his aide in
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Businessman, newspaper publisher, lawyer, judge, diplomat, banker, real estate investor
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Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century.
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Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
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In 1851, he and Jonas H. Townsend, W. H. Newby, and William H. Hall, published the
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Simmons, William J.; Turner, Henry McNeal (1887). "Hon. Mifflin Wistar Gibbs".
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In 1876, he was elected president of the National Convention of Colored Men at
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Gibbs died at 92 in Little Rock, Arkansas on July 11, 1915. He is buried at
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of Philadelphia, a literary organization which included Douglass,
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Joel Dreyfuss, "A Black Power Couple in the Early 20th Century"
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In 1858, he and other American blacks were angered when the
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List of first minority male lawyers and judges in Arkansas
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American emigrants to pre-Confederation British Columbia
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The Black Community in the History of Quebec and Canada,
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The Black Community in the History of Quebec and Canada,
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Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
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in the United States at the turn of the 20th century.
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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was born on April 17, 1823, in
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Index

Mifflin W. Gibbs

Philadelphia
Little Rock, Arkansas
Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery
Republican
Ida Alexander Gibbs
Harriet Gibbs Marshall
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs
Gold Rush
California State Convention of Colored Citizens
Victoria
Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
American Civil War
Little Rock
Reconstruction
William McKinley
American consul
Madagascar
Philadelphia
Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs
Methodist
minister
abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
Philomathean Society
Charles Burleigh Purvis
William Whipper
American Revolutionary War
carpenter

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