A Black congressman in the age of Jim Crow : South Carolina's George Washington Murray

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A Black congressman in the age of Jim Crow : South Carolina's George Washington Murray

2006

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/738499411

211 pages.

eng, Latn

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Murray, George Washington, 1853-1926

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George Washington Murray (September 22, 1853 – April 21, 1926), born into slavery in South Carolina, became educated and worked as a teacher, farmer and politician. After serving as chairman of the Sumter County Republican Party, he was elected in the 1890s as a United States congressman from South Carolina. He was the only black member in the 53rd and 54th Congresses. Because South Carolina passed a constitution in 1895 that effectively disenfranchised blacks and crippled the Republican Party, ...