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Virginia Beach Installs Historical Marker for First Black Man Elected

Summary by Hampton Roads Messenger
Tweet Political activist Willis Augustus Hodges’ legacy memorialized with new sign to be installed at Witchduck Road and Singleton Way. The story of Willis Augustus Hodges, an abolitionist as well as social and political trailblazer during the post-Civil-War Reconstruction Era, is being shared on a new state historical marker in Kempsville.   He was a journalist, a minister and the first Black man elected to public office in Princess Anne County…
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Virginia Beach Installs Historical Marker for First Black Man Elected

Tweet Political activist Willis Augustus Hodges’ legacy memorialized with new sign to be installed at Witchduck Road and Singleton Way. The story of Willis Augustus Hodges, an abolitionist as well as social and political trailblazer during the post-Civil-War Reconstruction Era, is being shared on a new state historical marker in Kempsville.   He was a journalist, a minister and the first Black man elected to public office in Princess Anne County…

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Hampton Roads Messenger broke the news in Hampton, United States on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
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