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K. Leroy Irvis, Pa.'s first Black House speaker, blazed trails and battled discrimination | Column


K. Leroy Irvis, Pa.’s first Black House speaker, blazed trails and battled discrimination | Column
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 14, 2021
K. Leroy Irvis, Pennsylvania House speaker for eight years in the 1970s and 1980s, poses in the House chamber in Harrisburg in 1985. The trailblazing lawmaker died 15 years ago this month. (Associated Press file photo)
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On the South Lawn of the Capitol Complex at Fourth and Walnuts streets stands a monument.
Dedicated last year, it depicts four Black figures who had ties to the Old 8th Ward, a predominantly African American and immigrant neighborhood in Harrisburg that was removed when the Capitol Complex expanded in the early 20th century. ....

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House member calls for returning criminal history Speaker plaques


Although both Republican and Democratic House leaders called for his resignation when the videos became public, Bernstine ignored them and won re-election in November with 51.5% of the vote in a three-way race.
In a Tuesday letter to current House Speaker Bryan Cutler, Bernstine recounted that former Speakers John Perzel, a Republican; Bill DeWeese, a Democrat; and the late Herbert Fineman, a Democrat, were convicted of public corruption charges.
“Sadly, Pennsylvania has a deep history of bipartisan corruption, and the plaques are an appropriate way to inform visitors to the Capitol about some of those most recent instances,” Bernstine wrote. “I think we can both agree that it is inappropriate to try and erase history.” ....

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