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==Post-war career==
After the war, Sunday returned to Pensacola with a wife, Seraphine, whom he had met in Louisiana. Sunday quickly became a leader in the black community. Sunday was appointed a customs inspector for the [[Port of Pensacola]] before serving in the Florida House of Representatives in 1874. Sunday was later elected to the [[Pensacola City Council]] and served in that role from 1878 to 1881and again from 1884 to 1885.
Sunday founded a successful contracting firm, which built hundreds of houses and commercial buildings throughout the city, as well as several other business and real estate investments. When Jim Crow laws forced African-American business owners out of [[downtown Pensacola]], Sunday helped establish [[Belmont-DeVilliers]] as Pensacola's primary black business district. When Pensacola's black Catholics formed [[St. Joseph Catholic Church]], Sunday provided the land for the new church.
