Reverend King Solomon Dupont
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Title
Reverend King Solomon Dupont
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Type
Image
Description
Photograph of Reverend King Solomon Dupont. In 1957, Dupont became the first African American to run for office in Tallahassee since Reconstruction when he joined the race for the city commission. Dupont was pastor of Fountain Chapel AME Church from 1950 to 1958 and a founding member of the Inter-Civic Council, a Tallahassee civil rights group whose bus boycotts led to the unofficial integration of city buses in 1957.
Genre
Photographs
Physical Description
1 item
Identifier
JGRCMA-FC-B042B-F017-I001
Topics
African American clergy
African American churches
African American Resistance
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States
Physical Location
Families Collection, John G. Riley House Archives, Tallahassee Community College Library, Tallahassee, Florida.