Anderson, newly elected to the legislature, with his mother, Tabetha Murphy Anderson. Photo by Cusick. KHS Collections.
In January 1936, Charles W. Anderson Jr. of Louisville took a seat in the Kentucky House. He was the first African American to serve in that body and the first to serve in a southern state legislature since the turn of the century. One of the bills he sponsored, approved February 25, 1936, was the Anderson-Myer Act, which provided up to $175 a year for blacks to attend out-of-state colleges in order to take courses closed to them in Kentucky due to segregation.
Anderson, newly elected to the legislature, with his mother, Tabetha Murphy Anderson. Photo by Cusick. KHS Collections.
