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James Milton Turner (c. 1840 – November 1, 1915) was a Reconstruction Era political leader, activist, educator, and diplomat. Appointed consul general to Liberia in 1871, he was the first African-American to serve in the U.S. diplomatic corps.
30. Jan. 2007 · James Milton Turner was an African American Missourian who was a prominent politician, education advocate, and diplomat in the years after the Civil War. Turner was born a slave in St. Louis, Missouri sometime in 1840.
James Milton Turner was educated in secretly run schools in the St. Louis area during the late 1840s and early 1850s. An 1847 Missouri law prohibited the education of blacks, slave or free, even in the privacy of one’s own home. In either 1854 or 1855 Turner’s parents sent him to Ohio to attend Oberlin College’s preparatory department. At ...
17. Aug. 2023 · James Milton Turner was a prominent African American politician, educator, and civil rights advocate. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Turner as Minister to Liberia in 1871 and was the second African American to become a U.S. minister to another country.
4. Juni 2023 · In 1869, J. Milton Turner, a Black resident of Boonville, Missouri, was tasked by the Western Sanitary Commission and the American Missionary Association with funding from the Freedmen's Bureau to begin efforts to educate Black children in Missouri.
He was a Black Reconstruction Era politician, activist, educator, and diplomat. James Milton Turner was born into slavery in St. Louis, Missouri. As a child, he was sold on the steps of the St. Louis US Courthouse for $50 (US$ 1,500 in 2020). His enslaved father, John Turner, was a "horse doctor." Allowed to keep some of his earnings, he ...
JAMES MILTON TURNER: BENEFACTOR 377 hip injury and a permanent limp. According to the Post-Dispatch article he saw the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri and witnessed the death of General Lyon. This article is also the authority for the information that when Turner mistakenly thought Col. Miller had been killed, he
