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Rev. Henry McNeal Turner

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'Am I a Man?': The fiery 1868 speech by an expelled Black legislator in Georgia

April 12, 2023 - The expulsion of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee House for participating in a nonviolent protest recalls an earlier expulsion of dozens of Black lawmakers from Georgia's General Assembly because of their race. Here's the defiant speech delivered in response by one of those expelled lawmakers, the Rev. Henry McNeal Turner.

Rev. Henry McNeal Turner

'Am I a Man?': The fiery 1868 speech by an expelled Black legislator in Georgia

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