Lawrence Douglas Wilder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor. He is currently a professor at the namesake Wilder School at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Wilder state senate campaign poster, 1969
Virginia Union University
Virginia Union University is a private historically black university in Richmond, Virginia.
Pickford Hall, Virginia Union University
Charles S. Johnson
Spottswood William Robinson III
Ben Wallace