Draft:John Carter Leftwich

Resubmitted. An entire article about him by Melissa Nicole Stuckey is cited. FloridaArmy (talk) 13:33, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

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John Carter Leftwich (June 6, 1867 – July 14, 1923) was a government official, founded a town for African Americams in Alabama, worked at newspapers, and was the leader of various colleges in the Oklahoma Territory. He was born in Forkland, Alabama, the eldest of Lloyd Leftwich's 8 children. He was shot to death by a teacher he had not paid.

He graduated from Selma University in 1890. He bought land and founded Klondike, Alabama.

He became an advocate for temperance. After African Americans were disenfranchised in Alabama he moved to the Oklahoma Territory.