Henry Mayson

Not to be confused with Henry Mason.

Henry Mayson (born c. 1835, also known as Henry Mason) was a delegate to the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and a state legislator in Mississippi.^[1]

Mason was a leader in the African American community in Vicksburg, Mississippi.^[2] He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and edited the Colored Citizen.^[3] It was the first of several newspapers for African Americans published in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era.^[4] He was one of the founders of a benevolent aid society in Bolivar County in 1871.^[5] A 1910 publication of the Mississippi Historical Society described him as an illiterate former African American political leader living in Monticello, Mississippi^[6] and referred to him as "old darkery".^[6]

References

1. "Henry Mayson – Against All Odds".
2. "henry mason mississippi - Google Search". www.google.com.
3. Thompson, Julius Eric (July 2, 2001). Black Life in Mississippi: Essays on Political, Social, and Cultural Studies in a Deep South State. University Press of America. ISBN 9780761819226 – via Google Books.
4. Suggs, Henry L. (1993). "Reviewed work: The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985, Julius e. Thompson". The Business History Review. 67 (4): 651–653. doi:10.2307/3116813. JSTOR 3116813. S2CID 157781396.
5. "Laws of the State of Mississippi". Richard C. Langdon. July 2, 1871 – via Google Books.
6. Society, Mississippi Historical (July 2, 1910). "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society" – via Google Books.