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 Montgomery 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 belonged 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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