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John F. Marszalek. A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow: South Carolina's George Washington Murray. (New Perspectives on the History of the South.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2006. Pp. xix, 211. $55.00.
A volume in the series "New Perspectives on the History of the South," edited by John David Smith, this biography contains 165 pages of text about a forgotten black leader in fin-de-siecle South Carolina. The author, John F. Marszalek, is a prolific scholar of nineteenth-century American history. In this old-fashioned political biography, Marszalek makes an important contribution to both South Carolina and African American history. Considering how few and scattered are the sources relating to his subject, his ability to reconstruct the life of the obscure George Washington Murray, even briefly, is an impressive accomplishment.	1
Murray was born a slave in Sumter County, South Carolina, in 1853. Little is known of his childhood, but he became a teacher during Reconstruction, despite having no formal education himself. From 1874 to 1877 he attended the temporarily integrated University of South Carolina. By 1880 he had acquired sixty-four acres of land and was thriving as a small farmer. Murray entered local and state politics as a Republican at that time, and over the next decade he built a reputation as a campaign orator which earned him the sobriquet the "Black Bold Eagle." Around 1889–1890 he flirted with Populist ideas but wisely remained in the GOP. President-elect Benjamin Harrison rewarded him with the post of inspector at the Customs House in Charleston.	. . .

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