John C. Rollins was a state legislator in Arkansas.[1] He represented Ashley County in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1873. He was a Republican.[2] He was one of the African Americans who served in Arkansas’ legislature during and after the Reconstruction era[3] until the 1970s when voting restrictions imposed by Democrats during the Jim Crow era were lifted in the Civil Rights era.

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  1. ↑ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
  2. ↑ "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
  3. ↑ "Remembering Early African-American Arkansas Legislators : Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson". governor.arkansas.gov.


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