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James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader

By Gary R. Kremer

Book information

Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Year
1991
ISBN
9780826260901, 9780826222251, 9780826207807
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (4856213 bytes)
Series
Missouri Biography Series
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-05 22:10:12
Biography & Autobiography; History; African Americ

Description

James Milton Turner, Missouri's most prominent nineteenth-century African American political figure, possessed a deep faith in America. The Civil War, he believed, had purged the land of its sins and allowed the country to realize what had always been its promise: the creation of a social and political environment in which merit, not race, mattered. Born a slave, Turner gained freedom when he was a child and received his education in clandestine St. Louis schools, later briefly attending Oberlin College. A self-taught lawyer, Turner earned a statewide reputation and wielded power far out of proportion to Missouri's relatively small black population. After working nearly a decade in Liberia, Turner never regained the prominence he had enjoyed during Reconstruction.

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