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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 de ene. de 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.
17 de ago. de 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. He was born sometime between 1839 and 1840 to John and Hannah Turner.
Died: November 1, 1915 (age 76?) Missouri Hometown: St. Louis. Region of Missouri: St. Louis. Categories: African Americans, Educators, Leaders and Activists. James Milton Turner was a significant leader in the areas of African American education, civil rights, and foreign diplomacy during the decades after the Civil War.
10 de dic. de 2020 · James Milton Turner was a significant leader in the areas of African American education, civil rights, and foreign diplomacy during the decades after the Civil War.Turner was born into slavery in St. Louis County in either 1839 or 1840, James Milton Turner and his mother, Hannah, were freed in 1843.
James Milton Turner, Missouri's most prominent nineteenth-century African American political figure, possessed a deep faith in America. The Civil War, he believed, had purged the land of its...
