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James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader (Missouri Biography Series) (Volume 1) by Gary R. Kremer is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader (Missouri Biography Series) (Volume 1) about?

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.

Author

Gary R. Kremer

Publisher

Columbia: University of Missouri Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826222251

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir