William M. Hampton

Dr. William M. Hampton (died 1960) was an American physician and politician from North Carolina.[1] In 1951, Hampton became the first African-American elected to the Greensboro, North Carolina City Council. He was re-elected in 1953.[2]

Hampton was born in New Jersey and moved to Warnersville neighborhood of Greensboro in 1939. He attended Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. Because Hampton was elected to a formerly all-White City Council in a Jim Crow state, his election was a national news story and was covered by Time magazine and the New York Times.[3][4]

References
  1. Chafe, William Henry (1981). Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. Oxford University Press. pp. 27, 28, 40, 68, 100. ISBN 9780195029192. Hampton.
  2. Hairston, Otis L. (2003). Greensboro North Carolina. Arcadia Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 9780738515250. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  3. Powell, Lew. "'I held the same Bible… and I was perfectly happy' « North Carolina Miscellany". North Carolina Miscellany. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  4. "Five Elected Negroes Seated in Carolina". The New York Times. 8 May 1953. Retrieved 7 November 2019.


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