Fort Valley State University Alumni - Fort Valley State Wildcats Football Players, Greg Lloyd, Rayfield Wright, Nick Harper, Jo Ann Robinson (Paperback)

Chapters: Fort Valley State Wildcats Football Players, Greg Lloyd, Rayfield Wright, Nick Harper, Jo Ann Robinson, Catherine Hardy Lavender, Tyrone Poole, Robert Jones, Calvin Smyre, John Wesley Blassingame, Howard Nathaniel Lee, Rashod Moulton, Peppi Zellner, Derrick Wimbush, Eddie Anderson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Calvin Smyre Calvin Smyre (born May 17, 1947) is a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives, representing the 132nd district since 1974.From Columbus, Georgia, Smyre became the youngest member of the Georgia House of Representatives when he was elected to it at the age of 26 in 1974. He rose through the ranks over the next decade, both representing the successes of the civil rights movement in gaining African Americans political power and the rise of a younger generation of African American leadership succeeding, and sometimes conflicting with, the generation that had led the movement. Governor Joe Frank Harris appointed Smyre assistant floor leader in the 1983 legislative session and, in 1986, appointed him floor leader for the 1987 session, making him the first African American leader of the House since Reconstruction . In 1998, he was elected the first African American Chairman of the Democratic Party 's state legislative caucus; and, in 2001, Smyre was appointed Chairman of the state Democratic Party. In 2006, he was elected President of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators . Smyre also serves as Executive Vice President of Corporate External Affairs at Synovus and President of the Synovus Foundation.References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) item Synovus - Calvin Smyre profile A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Medal record Catherine Hardy Lavender (n e Catherine Hardy ) (born 8 February 1930) is an African-Ameri...