{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} '''Allen E. Williams''' was a state legislator in Alabama.<ref name="Archives">{{cite web | title=African American Legislators in Reconstruction Alabama | website=Alabama Department of Archives and History | url=https://archives.alabama.gov/research/docs/African_American_legislators_Reconstruction.pdf | access-date=2023-09-20}}</ref><ref name="Lest We Forget 2009 v867">{{cite web | title=x-index :: Reconstruction :: Politics :: Lest We Forget | website=Lest We Forget | date=2009-04-08 | url=http://lestweforget.hamptonu.edu/page.cfm?uuid=9FEC4EC4-9F99-064D-99109BD6B7AE7CB1 | access-date=2023-09-20}}</ref> He represented Barbour County, Alabama in the Alabama House of Representatives between 1872 and 1874.<ref name="Archives"/>

He was unseated, along with several other African American legislators, following the Election Massacre of 1874 in Barbour County.<ref name="Archives"/><ref name="Encyclopedia of Alabama 2023 t832">{{cite web | title=Election Riots of 1874 | website=Encyclopedia of Alabama | date=2023-03-27 | url=https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/election-riots-of-1874/ | access-date=2023-09-20}}</ref> Williams testified that he, along with other Republican Representatives, was unseated by Democrats. He also testified about a man imprisoned for marrying a white woman and of threats that caused Williams to leave the area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BGYAV_Sbrs8C&dq=A.+E.+Williams+barbour+county&pg=RA25-PA616|title=Senate documents|date=March 24, 1877|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==See also== *Election Riot of 1874 *African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900

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