A highly revered and respected judge of the Alabama Supreme Court, Anthony Sayre was the father of six children, the youngest being Zelda, who would marry the Jazz Age novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Sayre was an Alabama lawyer and politician who notably served as a state legislator in the Alabama House of Representatives (1890-1893), as the President of the Alabama State Senate (1896-97), and later as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1909-1931).
According to historians, Sayre played a key role in undermining the protections guaranteed to black citizens in Alabama by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and in enabling the ideology of white supremacy. As an ambitious state legislator in the post-Reconstruction era, he authored and introduced the landmark 1893 Sayre Act, which disenfranchised black Alabamians for seventy years and ushered in the racially segregated Jim Crow period in the state.
Sayre's uncle and patron was U.S. Senator John Tyler Morgan, the second Grand Dragon of the Alabama KKK and one of the most notorious racist ideologues of the Gilded Age.
A highly revered and respected judge of the Alabama Supreme Court, Anthony Sayre was the father of six children, the youngest being Zelda, who would marry the Jazz Age novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Sayre was an Alabama lawyer and politician who notably served as a state legislator in the Alabama House of Representatives (1890-1893), as the President of the Alabama State Senate (1896-97), and later as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1909-1931).
According to historians, Sayre played a key role in undermining the protections guaranteed to black citizens in Alabama by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and in enabling the ideology of white supremacy. As an ambitious state legislator in the post-Reconstruction era, he authored and introduced the landmark 1893 Sayre Act, which disenfranchised black Alabamians for seventy years and ushered in the racially segregated Jim Crow period in the state.
Sayre's uncle and patron was U.S. Senator John Tyler Morgan, the second Grand Dragon of the Alabama KKK and one of the most notorious racist ideologues of the Gilded Age.
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