Henry McNeal Turner got involved in politics in the years following the war with the Republican Party, whose leaders had spearheaded the war effort and, under Abraham Lincoln, emancipated slaves across the Confederacy. He was a founding member of the Republican Party of Georgia. Henry McNeal Turner was elected to the Georgia Legislature in 1868 after running for office from Macon. Turner and 26 other freshly elected black lawmakers, all Republicans, were denied seats by the Democratic Party, which was still in control of the state at the time. Refer…
Henry McNeal Turner Biography: Political View, Religious Leadership & Legacy
