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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Obedient Defiance
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Young African-American woman posing for photograph in Detroit, Michigan circa 1948
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Look Who’s Coming For Dinner…Washington and Roosevelt, 1901
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Colored movie theater, Belzoni, Mississippi, 1939
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Elderly African Americans who were once slaves work together in a rural setting in 1920
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An actual postcard showing the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings
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Did Blacks Own Slaves?