A BLACK CONGRESSMAN in the AGE JIM CROW: SOUTH CAROLINA'S GEORGE WASHINGTON MURRAY - University Press of Florida - Libros - University Press of Florida - 9780813033402 - 15 de noviembre de 2008
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A BLACK CONGRESSMAN in the AGE JIM CROW: SOUTH CAROLINA'S GEORGE WASHINGTON MURRAY

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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 corrupt Reconstruction politics and white supremacist attitudes he could not escape, Murray was driven from office and from the state. Drawing on extensive research to reconstruct Murray's life story, Marszalek defines an age and its people through the compelling battle of one man and shows how and why the nation's efforts to reconstruct the South into a biracial democracy failed. Murray's career, which spanned a quarter of a century, included two terms in the U. S. House of Representatives and leadership of South Carolina's Republican party. He was an investor as well as a landed property owner who sold tracts to poor blacks in order for them to qualify to vote. But by the beginning of the twentieth century, with his party in shambles, he found himself on trial for alleged forgery in a land deal with two of his black land purchasers. Murray was found guilty, and the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld the verdict. Sentenced to hard labor on a chain gang, he escaped to Chicago where he spent the rest of his life in obscurity.

236 pages, black & white illustrations

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Publicado 15 de noviembre de 2008
ISBN13 9780813033402
Editores University Press of Florida
Páginas 232
Dimensiones 152 × 230 × 15 mm   ·   333 g
Lengua Inglés  

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