May 21, 2012

In November 1981, Charles Bussey became the first African American to serve as mayor of Little Rock (Pulaski County). He had previously been the first African-American deputy sheriff and, in 1968, the first as a member of the City Board of Directors. In 2005, a Little Rock street was named in his honor.

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