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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Special Field Orders, No. 15
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Southern jails made money leasing convicts for forced labor in the Jim Crow South
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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)