Benjamin Sterling Turner (1825 – 1894), born a slave, but was educated. After the Civil War he engaged in local politics in Selma, Alabama, and elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1870.
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Convicts leased to harvest timber circa 1915, in Florida
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African American extended family arriving in Chicago from the rural South, ca. 1920
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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
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It All Starts with Binah
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The Legend of Dinkie the Conjurer!
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Ex-slave Bob Lemmons was born about 1850, in south Texas
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Robertson’s Jams and marmalade