Josiah Walls : Florida's Black Congressman of Reconstruction

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Josiah Walls : Florida's Black Congressman of Reconstruction

1976

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1991245

Josiah Walls was one of Reconstruction's leading black politicians and Florida's most important black politician of the nineteenth century. He was able not only to survive but also to succeed, within limits, in a period in which he was denied full political participation.

xi, 157 pages : portrait ; 24 cm

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Walls, Josiah Thomas, 1842-1905

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Josiah Thomas Walls (December 30, 1842 – May 15, 1905) was a United States congressman who served three terms in the U.S. Congress between 1871 and 1876. He was one of the first African Americans in the United States Congress elected during the Reconstruction Era, and the first black person to be elected to Congress from Florida. He also served four terms in the Florida Senate. Josiah Walls was born into slavery in 1842 near Winchester, Virginia. During the American Civil War, he was forced t...