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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.
17 de ago. de 2023 · State Historical Society of Missouri. 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.
Although numerous secondary accounts of James Milton Turner’s life list his birth date as May 16, 1840, he recorded in 1871 that he was born on August 22, 1839. Whichever date is accurate, he was born in St. Louis County, the son of John Turner, a free black farrier, and Hannah, who was enslaved by the Reverend Aaron Young and his wife ...
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
James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader. Gary R. Kremer. University of Missouri Press, 1991 - Biography & Autobiography - 245 pages....
James Milton Turner, Missouri's most prominent nineteenth-century African American political figure, possessed a deep faith in America.
