Henry McNeal Turner
Linked to Civil Rights Movement
Linked to Civil Rights Movement
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One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia, Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist…
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