Henry Mayson (born c. 1835, also known as Henry Mason) was a delegate to the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and a state legislator in Mississippi.[1]

Mason was a leader in the African American community in Vicksburg, Mississippi.[2] He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and edited the Colored Citizen.[3] It was the first of several newspapers for African Americans published in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era.[4] He was one of the founders of a benevolent aid society in Bolivar County in 1871.[5] A 1910 publication of the Mississippi Historical Society described him as an illiterate former African American political leader living in Monticello, Mississippi[6] and referred to him as "old darkery".[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Henry Mayson – Against All Odds".
  2. ↑ "henry mason mississippi - Google Search". www.google.com.
  3. ↑ Thompson, Julius Eric (July 2, 2001). Black Life in Mississippi: Essays on Political, Social, and Cultural Studies in a Deep South State. University Press of America. ISBN 9780761819226 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Suggs, Henry L. (1993). "Reviewed work: The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985, Julius e. Thompson". The Business History Review. 67 (4): 651–653. doi:10.2307/3116813. JSTOR 3116813. S2CID 157781396.
  5. ↑ "Laws of the State of Mississippi". Richard C. Langdon. July 2, 1871 – via Google Books.
  6. 1 2 Society, Mississippi Historical (July 2, 1910). "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society" – via Google Books.


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