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Vern Miller getting on a motorcycle in Wichita, Kansas
This is a photograph showing Vern Miller getting on a motorcycle in Wichita, Kansas. Miller served as Attorney General for Kansas from January 1971 to January 1975.
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This photograph shows Curtis Realious McClinton, 1913-2021, from Sedgwick County, Kansas. Mclinton was a real estate broker and former Kansas NAACP vice-president, he was elected in 1956 to the Kansas House of Representatives representing the Sixty-Seven District of Sedgwick. He served two terms in the house from 1957 to 1960. In 1965 he was elected as the first African-American to the Kansas Senate representing the Twenty-Six District of Sedgwick. He served two terms from 1965-1968. During his legislative career he introduced public-accommodation laws calling for "equal treatment for individuals, regardless of race, religion or national origin", that predated the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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