James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader

by Gary R. Kremer

Book Overview

James Milton Turner, Missouri's most prominent nineteenth-century African American political figure, possessed a deep faith in America. The Civil War, he believed, had purged the land of its sins and allowed the country to realize what had always been its promise: the creation of a social and political environment in which merit, not race, mattered.

Born a slave, Turner gained freedom when he was a child and received his education in clandestine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826222250
• ISBN13: 9780826222251
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 14 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 5