| James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader Contributor(s): Kremer, Gary R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826222250 ISBN-13: 9780826222251 Publisher: University of Missouri Press OUR PRICE: $26.73 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | African American - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black - History | United States - General |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 264 pages |
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| Publisher 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. |