Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2015. Committee Papers, 1793 - 1946. Committee Papers of the Committee on Elections from the 52nd Congress

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Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2015. Committee Papers, 1793 - 1946. Committee Papers of the Committee on Elections from the 52nd Congress

1891-1893

9 linear feet, 7 linear inches

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SNAC Resource ID: 11647911

National Archives at Washington, D.C

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Miller, Thomas Ezekiel, 1849-1938

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Thomas Ezekiel Miller (June 17, 1849 – April 8, 1938) was an American educator, lawyer and politician. After being elected as a state legislator in South Carolina, he was one of only five African Americans elected to Congress from the South in the Jim Crow era of the last decade of the nineteenth century, as disfranchisement reduced black voting. After that, no African Americans were elected from the South until 1972. Miller was a prominent leader in the struggle for civil rights in the Ameri...