My great-great-great-grandfather Lewis Henderson was selected to serve as a Superior Court juror in Wayne County, North Carolina, in 1877.
Goldsboro Messenger, 20 August 1877.
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Jurors and judges of election.
As tax-paying landowners, many African-American men in Wayne County, North Carolina, in the 1870s were called alongside white men to fulfill their civic duties. Here are two entries from Superior Court Minute Book 2:
Napoleon Hagans of Nahunta township was appointed a judge of elections.
My great-great-great-grandfather Lewis Henderson drew jury duty for the first week of the next term of the superior court.
Superior Court Minute Book 2, Wayne County Register of Deeds Office, Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Jurors for March Term.
Napoleon Hagans and other “colored” men remained on Wayne County’s voter rolls through Reconstruction and beyond. As a result, at least until the 1890s, they were called to serve as jurors alongside their white male neighbors.
Goldsboro Headlight, 5 February 1890.
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