Marshall Shepard Resigns as D.C. Recorder

Marshall Shepard Resigns as D.C. Recorder

Marshall Shepard, recorder of deeds, Mount Olivet Tabernacle, Baptist minister

Marshall Shepard resigns his position of recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, in order to dedicate his full attention to an election for the same position in Philadelphia, as the first black and democratic candidate ever nominated.

WCU, HIS 601/HON 452 Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, Fall 2014

Sept. 1, 1951

Andrew Hiles

Used by permission of the Philadelphia Tribune Company, Inc. All rights reserved. The Philadelphia Tribune, with 130 years of continuous publication, is the oldest newspaper in the United States serving the African-American community.

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