Charles Anderson was an African-American legislator who was born in Louisville. He attended Kentucky State University and received a J.D. degree from Howard University in Washington D.C., which also hosted alumni including supreme court justice Thurgood Marshall and Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison. After practicing as a lawyer in Louisville, Anderson was elected to the Kentucky state legislature as a Republican, being the first African-American to join a state legislature after the Reconstruction and the first in the South to do so. While in office, he advocated for black education, improvement of public school facilities, and the repeal of Kentucky's public lynching law.
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