United States, Businessman
February 25,
1826 – June, 3, 1891.
Alexander G. Clark was an African-American businessman and activist who served as United States Ambassador to Liberia in 1890-1891, where he died in office. Clark is notable for suing in 1868 to gain admission for his daughter to attend a local public school, gaining a constitutional ruling for integration from the Iowa state supreme court 86 years before the United States Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education (1954). That year he also had gained the right for African Americans in Iowa to vote.
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