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James Milton Turner and the Promise of America
Gary R. Kremer
其他書名
The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader
出版University of Missouri Press, 1991-06-01
主題History / GeneralHistory / African American & BlackBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & BlackHistory / United States / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
ISBN082626090X9780826260901
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IvgkEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.