Rosita Youngblood


Rosita C. Youngblood is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 198th District since a special election on April 5, 1994 to fill a vacancy.

Ward leader

Youngblood is the Ward Leader of the 13th Ward Democratic Executive Committee.

Negro Mountain

In July 2007, Youngblood called for the renaming of Negro Mountain. In a news release, she said, "Through a school project, my son and granddaughter first informed me of the name of this range and I found it to be disparaging that we have one of our great works of nature named as such… I find it disheartening for tourists who visit this range to see the plaque with the name Negro Mountain displayed on the mountainside."
On 1 August 2007, Youngblood and other lawmakers introduced House Resolution No. 378 resolving that the governor "form a commission …to study the naming of Negro Mountain and Mount Davis … adopt names that accurately reflect the history of the region and the heroism displayed by the African American in the Negro Mountain conflict of 1756" and accordingly to alter "brochures, plaques and signs accurately reflect the facts of this heroic historical event".