Walthall Moore becomes the first Black person to serve in the Missouri General Assembly. The Republican representative for St. Louis’s 6th District. Among many accomplishments, Moore introduced an anti-lynching bill, successfully stewarded the formation of Lincoln University with a $500,000 appropriation and helped organize the first Black-owned steam laundry in the state, Missouri Secretary of State records show.
Photo credit: Delano, J., photographer. (1942) Postgraduate students studying physiology of the muscle. The experiment is with frogs’ muscle tissue. Left to right: 1 J.S. Newcomer, graduate of University of Utah and majoring in organic chemistry. 2 A.E. Bell, graduate of University of Kentucky, genetics major. 3 Hiss Trondailer Jones, graduate of Lincoln University at Jefferson City, Missouri, taking postgraduate work in nutrition. 4 Samuel Massie, of Little Rock, Arkansas, studied at Arkansas State, taking postgraduate work in organic chemistry. United States Ames Story County Iowa, 1942. May. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017831199/.
