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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 Author: 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 »
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