Reviewed by Jeff Strickland | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.1

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*A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray*. By John F. Marszalek. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xix + 212 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, appendix, and index. $55.00 (cloth).
Distinguished historian John F. Marszalek uses the life of George Washington Murray as a symbol of African American political and legal agency in resisting the onslaught of Jim Crow segregation in South Carolina by placing Murray's life within the larger framework of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century U.S. history. Written from the black perspective, this book is an important addition to the growing literature on African American life in South Carolina, along with works by Bernard Powers, Stephen Kantrowitz, Richard Zuczek, and Julie Saville.	1
The book begins with an impressive chapter on slavery and emancipation in South Carolina in which Marszalek does not shy away from the brutality of his subject. Murray was born a slave in 1852 in Sumter County, South Carolina, and he became literate and learned math as a slave. During Reconstruction, he farmed a small, local plot and later attended an integrated University of South Carolina campus until he and the other African American students were expelled after the Democratic Party's so-called "redemption" in 1876–77. Murray returned to farming and had amassed nearly fifty acres of land by 1880.	. . .

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