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Green Currin (October 20, 1842 or 1844-October 21, 1918) was the first African American to serve in the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature that existed before statehood in 1907.〔Fisher, Bruce T. "Currin, Green I. (1842?-1918)," http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CU005.html Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture (accessed April 18, 2013)〕 He was the author of the Oklahoma Territory's first civil rights legislation, a proposal to penalize racial violence, that failed by one vote.〔 Currin participated in the Land Run of 1889 and served as the grand master of an African American Masonic Order in Oklahoma. ==Early life== There is conflicting information about Currin's birth, which is listed as October 20, 1842, in Tennessee, in a published obituary and as 1844 in a 1900 U.S. Census for Oklahoma Territory.〔 After living in Nashville, Tennessee and Kansas, Currin participated in the Land Run of 1889 in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Territory.〔
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