Post-Reconstruction Representatives:

ID: 2914 ~ Source: Holmes, Zan Wesley, Jr. Interviewed by Michael Phillips and Betsy Friauf. March 22, 2014. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here.


Davis, Camille. “Lockridge, Joseph Edwin (1932-1968).” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Accessed July 29, 2022.  https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lockridge-joseph-edwin; “Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr.” Texas Legislators: Past & Present. Legislative Reference Library of Texas. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://lrl.texas.gov/legeleaders/members/memberdisplay.cfm?memberID=745.
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Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. remembers the election of Joseph Lockridge to the Texas House of Representatives in 1966. Lockridge, elected alongside Barbara Jordan and Curtis Graves, was Dallas’s first Black state representative since Reconstruction. Later, Holmes succeeded Lockridge when he died tragically in 1968.

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By Allie Roberts
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