Larry J. Williams

Larry J. Williams was a registrar in 1866 and served in the Alabama House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era in Alabama]]. He was also three Mintgomery city council member for three terms from 1869 to 1874.[1] He and Jeremiah Haralson were both African Americans who represented Montgomery County, Alabama. Williams pushed for civil rights legislation.[2] He headed a special committee that was able to arrange for a conference of conservatives to proceed peacefully.[3] He served in 1873 along with Noah B. Cloud representing Montgomery.[4]

Larry J. Williams
Alabama House of Representatives
In office
1873–1873

He was a Union League organizer, an officer in the Alabama Labor Union, and belinged to the first Baptist Church in Montgomery serving an African American congregation. He died of hepatitis.[1]

See also

References
  1. Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner, Louisiana State University Press (1996) page 232
  2. Diouf, Sylviane A. (February 18, 2009). Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-972398-0 – via Google Books.
  3. Herbert, Hilary Abner (February 5, 1890). "Why the Solid South? Or, Reconstruction and Its Results". R. H. Woodward – via Google Books.
  4. Representatives, Alabama Legislature House of (February 5, 1873). "Journal of the House of Representatives, State of Alabama" – via Google Books.


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