McKinley Neal

James McKinley Neal (March 8, 1907 – ?) was a state legislator in Missouri from 1946–1964.[1] He served in the Missouri House of Representatives. He was a pharmacologist. He was the second African American to serve in the state legislature.[2] He supported desegregation of Missouri's public school.[3]

He was born in Greensboro, Georgia, the fourth of ten children in his family. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta and .[1] He was photographed with his wife at their home in Kansas City and Capitol College of Pharmacy in Denver, Colorado.[4]

References
  1. http://blackarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Neal-James-McKinley-Summary.pdf
  2. Greene, Lorenzo Johnston; Kremer, Gary R.; Holland, Antonio Frederick (October 19, 1993). "Missouri's Black Heritage". University of Missouri Press – via Google Books.
  3. Weathersby, Claude; Davis, Matthew D. (September 2019). Anti-Blackness and Public Schools in the Border South: Policy, Politics, and Protest in St. Louis, 1865–1972. ISBN 9781641137485.
  4. "J. McKinley Neal and Mrs. Jewel Neal | Harry S. Truman". www.trumanlibrary.gov.


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