About John Dozier
John Dozier was an American politician.
John Dozier was an American politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives. He served in 1871 and 1873.
He was enslaved and was owned by a college president in Virginia who manumitted him. His wife and son had been sold to and were on a plantation in Alabama. Dozier went to them. He became a pastor and settled in Marion County, Alabama where he founded the First Colored Baptist Church. He was a trustee of Lincoln Normal School.
He and other black Alabama legislators of the Reconstruction era are commemorated on a historical marker.
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