Title: George W. Lee
Content:  Lee was the first black in memory to register to vote in Humphreys County, Mississippi (where blacks were a majority of the population but had been effectively disfranchised by provisions of the 1890 constitution, particularly due to white implementation of poll taxes and literacy tests). In 1953, Lee and Gus Courts, another black grocer, co-founded the Belzoni chapter of the NAACP. When the sheriff refused to accept their poll taxes, which were required for voter registration, they took him to court. Between them, Lee and Courts registered nearly all of the county's ninety black voters in 1955. Whites were enraged by the previous year's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court's in Brown v. 
Title: Thomas Mundy Peterson
Content:  is often claimed,  the first African American to vote in an election. Several New England towns and northern states had allowed some free men of color to vote since colonial days, though some later rescinded those rights. New Jersey had allowed black residents to vote if they met residency and property requirements until 1807. And several states of the former Confederacy had allowed black suffrage earlier in Reconstruction; Louisiana, for example, had elected the nation's first black lieutenant governor, first black mayor, and first black elected member of Congress in 1868, each largely on the votes of freedmen. In all, more than 700,000 African Americans had cast votes in U.S. elections before Peterson.
Title: Timeline of African-American history
Content:  in rural southwest Georgia. ; July 10 – August 28 SCLC renews protests in Albany; King in jail July 10–12 and July 27 – August 10. ; August 31 – Fannie Lou Hamer attempts to register to vote in Indianola, Mississippi. ; September 9 – Two black churches used by SNCC for voter registration meetings are burned in Sasser, Georgia. ; September 20 – James Meredith is barred from becoming the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. ; September 30-October 1 – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black orders James Meredith admitted to Ole Miss.; he enrolls 
Title: July 1950
Content: In New Orleans, U.S. District Judge J. Skelly Wright issued an injunction prohibiting Washington Parish, Louisiana from any further rejection of African American citizens from registering to vote. On July 28, William Bailey, who brought the federal lawsuit after being denied since 1946, would become the first black registered voter in the 20th Century.  About fifty other black persons registered later that day at the courthouse in Bogalusa. Ben Carlin and his wife, Elinore Carlin, set out from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the Half-Safe, an amphibious jeep, in an effort to become the first persons to drive around the world. Mrs. Carlin would abandon the journey after several years because of seasickness, and Mr. Carlin, after long stops along the way, would complete his journey on May 13, 1958, nearly eight years after starting. He had driven 39,000 miles on land, and traversed 9,600 miles on the ocean. ; Walt Disney Studios' first completely live-action film, Treasure Island, made its debut. 
Title: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Content:  such devices in the state constitution as poll taxes, and literacy and comprehension tests, subjectively administered by whites. In 1960, thirty percent of the population in the county was black, but less than 1% of blacks had been able to register, regardless of their education level. Registration by whites was close to 100%. In 1961, the U.S. Justice Department filed suit against Lynd. He was the first southern registrar to be convicted under the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for systematically violating African-American voting rights. In 1962, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) began one of its first voter-registration projects in Hattiesburg under the auspices of 
Title: McComb, Mississippi
Content:  a clerical delegation to assist African-American voter registration. The following summer, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorizing federal oversight and enforcement to enable blacks to register and vote again in the South. In Mississippi, most blacks had been disenfranchised since 1890. Even with enforcement, it took time to overcome local white resistance to black voting. In 2006, Zach Patterson was elected as McComb's first African American mayor. In 2018, voters in the city of McComb would not only another African American mayor in former city administrator Quordiniah Lockley, but would also for the first time ever elect a city board consisting of a majority with African American members.
Title: Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
Content:  Johnson signed into law on August 6, 1965, outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of Southern blacks to vote for the first time. In accordance with the act, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia were subjected to the procedure of preclearance in 1965. The results were significant; between the years of 1968 and 1980, the number of Southern black elected state and federal officeholders nearly doubled. In Mississippi, the voter registration rate of African Americans rose from 6.7 percent to 59.8 percent between 1964 and 1967, a reflection of a broader increase in African-American voter registration rates.
Title: Freedom Vote
Content:  On October 6, 1963, a convention at the Masonic Temple in Jackson nominated Clarksdale, Mississippi, pharmacist and NAACP leader Arron Henry for governor, and activist Edwin King for lieutenant governor. It was the first black-white integrated ticket for state leadership of Mississippi since Reconstruction era. From October 14 to November 4, volunteers worked to spread information about the Freedom Vote as widely as possible amongst voters. Beginning on November 2, polling stations set up in barber shops, churches, drug stores in black neighborhoods and began accepting ballots. When polling concluded on November 4, 78,869 ballots had been submitted by blacks across Mississippi, four times the number of blacks registered to vote.
Title: Civil rights movement
Content:  After the Freedom Rides, local black leaders in Mississippi such as Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, Medgar Evers, and others asked SNCC to help register black voters and to build community organizations that could win a share of political power in the state. Since Mississippi ratified its new constitution in 1890 with provisions such as poll taxes, residency requirements, and literacy tests, it made registration more complicated and stripped blacks from voter rolls and voting. Also, violence at the time of elections had earlier suppressed black voting. By the mid-20th century, preventing blacks from voting had become an essential part of the culture of white supremacy. In June and July 1959, members of the black community in Fayette County, TN 
Title: Thomas Mundy Peterson
Content:  Thomas Mundy Peterson (October 6, 1824 – February 4, 1904) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey has been claimed to be the first African-American to vote in an election under the just-enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution. His vote was cast on March 31, 1870; the Amendment had been ratified almost two months earlier, on February 3, but was only officially certified by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish on March 30th. Peterson may well have been the first to vote after the ratification of the 15th Amendment — a result of his local election happening to be scheduled the day after the amendment's ratification. But he was far from being, 

Question: who was the first black person to register to vote?
Answer: Thomas Mundy Peterson.