The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920Various
History
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
Various
African Americans -- Periodicals
Greenville--James M. Allen, J. M. Runion, white; Wilson Cook, W. B.
Johnson, colored.
Horry--Henry Jones, A. R. Thompson, colored.
Kershaw--J. K. Jillson, S. G. W. Dill, white; John A. Chestnut,
colored.
Lancaster--Albert Clinton, Charles Jones, colored.
Lexington--Lemanuel Boozer, Simeon Corley, white.
Laurens--Joseph Crews, Y. J. P. Owens, white; Harry McDaniels, Nelson
Davis, colored.
Marion--W. S. Collins, white; J. W. Johnson, H. E. Hayne, B. A.
Thompson, colored.
Marlboro--Calvin Stubbs, George Jackson, colored.
Newberry--B. O. Duncan, white; James Henderson, Lee Nance, colored.
Orangeburg--E. W. M. Mackey, white; E. J. Cain, W. J. McKinlay, T. K.
Sasportas, B. F. Randolph, colored.
Pickens--M. Mauldin, Alexander Bryce, L. B. Johnson, white.
Richland--Thomas J. Robertson, white; W. B. Nash, S. B. Thompson, C.
M. Wilder, colored.
Spartanburg--J. P. F. Camp, J. S. Gentry, white; Rice Foster, Coy
Wingo, colored.
Sumter--T. J. Coghlan, F. J. Moses, Jr., white; W. E. Johnson, Samuel
Lee, colored.
Union--J. H. Goss, white; Abram Dogan, Samuel Nuckles, colored.
Williamsburg--William Darrington, white; C. M. Olsen, S. A. Swails,
colored.
York--J. L. Neagle, William E. Rose, white; J. W. Mead, J. H. White,
colored.
Three of the delegates elected failed to attend,--F. A. Sawyer, white,
Charleston; John K. Terry, white, Colleton; George D. Medis, colored,
Edgefield.
Of the 124 delegates elected, forty-eight were white and seventy-six
colored. The white men classed as Republicans were about equally
divided as natives or newcomers--in the vernacular of the times,
"scalawags" or "carpetbaggers."
The following table gives the previous residence of the delegates:
Whites Negroes
South Carolina 23 South Carolina 59
North Carolina 3 Pennsylvania 2
Georgia 1 Michigan 1
Massachusetts 7 Georgia 1
Connecticut 1 Tennessee 1
Rhode Island 1 Ohio 1
New York 1 North Carolina 1
Other Northern States 5 Virginia 1
England 2 Massachusetts 2
Ireland 1 Dutch Guiana 1
Prussia 1 Unknown 6
Denmark 1 ---
Unknown 1 76
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SENATORS OF SOUTH CAROLINA--RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD[18]
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