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A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow South Carolina's George Washington Murray - New Perspectives on the History of the South
Author: John F. Marszalek
Born a slave in 1850s South Carolina and elected to Congress in the 1890s, George W. Murray appeared to be the antithesis of the African American male in the Jim Crow South and served as a beacon for African Americans who saw their hopes crushed in the aftermath of the Civil War. Early in the twentieth century, however, tragically defeated by co...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813033402
ISBN-10: 0813033403
Publication Date: 11/15/2008
Pages: 232
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Publisher: University Press of Florida
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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