John C. Rollins was a state legislator in Arkansas. He represented Ashley County in the

Arkansas House of Representatives The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the ...

in 1873. He was a Republican. He was one of the African Americans who served in Arkansas’ legislature during and after the

Reconstruction era The Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War (1861–1865) and lasting until approximately the Compromise of 1877. During Reconstruction, attempts were made to rebuild the country after the bloo ...

until the 1970s when voting restrictions imposed by Democrats during the

Jim Crow The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the Sout ...

era were lifted in the Civil Rights era.

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Republican Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era 19th-century American legislators Year of birth missing Year of death missing People from Ashley County, Arkansas {{Arkansas-politician-stub

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