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Aug 12, 2023 · Curtis Graves, one of the first African Americans to serve in the Texas House of Representatives since Reconstruction, is being remembered as a political pioneer and civil rights activist. He died in Atlanta at the age of 84. Graves represented Houston in the State Legislature from 1967 to 1973.
Jun 16, 2022 · June 16, 2022. The Lone Star State had not elected an African American to its legislature since the nineteenth century, but that did not discourage Curtis Graves. The 27-year-old Texas Southern University graduate—whose great-grandparents on his mother’s side had both been the children of black slaves and white slave masters on the ...
- Nick Seabrook
Politics & Policy. The Agitator. As the first African American to serve in the Texas House since 1899, Curtis Graves made history—and also irked legislators, stirred up the establishment, and...
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Aug 1, 2023 · Graves ended up handily winning his race, becoming the Lone Star State’s first Black representative since the 1870s. But he still faced outright hostility and racism .
- Malaika Jabali
Aug 26, 2013 · Starting in 1967, Curtis Graves served for six years as the first African American Representative in the Texas State Legislature since the 1870’s. Later he went on to a career for thirty years in administration at the National Aeronautics and Space Association (NASA).
Jul 28, 2023 · He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973, representing the Democratic Party. He was one of three Black members elected in 1966, one of the first since 1896.
Jul 29, 2023 · The former Texas State Representative and civil rights activist was 84 at the time of his demise on Wednesday, July 26. Bryant shared a heartwarming photo of her father along with her and her...
