Willard L. Bowman (August 18, 1919 – December 3, 1975) was an American politician.
Bowman was a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He served in the United States Navy from 1938 to 1945. Five years later, he moved to Anchorage, Alaska. William A. Egan named Bowman the inaugural director of the Alaska Human Rights Commission in 1963. Bowman led the commission until 1970, when he was first elected to the Alaska House of Representatives as a Democrat. Bowman won reelection twice afterwards, in 1972 and 1974. He died of cancer on December 3, 1975, aged 56.[1]
Early Life
editPolitical Career
editHuman Rights Commission
editAlaska State Legislature
editLegacy
editReferences
edit- ^ "Guide to the Willard L. Bowman papers". Archives and Special Collections at the Consortium Library, University of Alaska. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
External Links
editHartman, I. C., & Reamer, D. (2020). A “Far North Dixie Land”: Black Settlement, Discrimination, and Community in Urban Alaska. The Western Historical Quarterly, 51(1), 29-48.
Hartman, I. C. (2018). Black History in the Last Frontier.
McCann, M. W., & Lovell, G. I. (2020). 4. LELO, ACWA, and the Politics of Civil Rights Mobilization. In Union by Law (pp. 225-270). University of Chicago Press.
Merculieff, I. (2016). Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People. North Atlantic Books.
Welch, G. P. (2015). Right-of-Way: Equal Employment Opportunity on the Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline, 1968-1977 (Doctoral dissertation, Duke University).
https://www.nps.gov/articles/upload/Alaska-Black-History-7-of-7-Willard-Bowman-508.pdf