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. The Henry McNeal Turner biography is, at its core, a story of a man who moved between the pulpit and politics without ever losing his conviction. Henry McNeal Turner was elected to the Georgia Legislature in 1868 after running for office from Macon. Turner and 26…
Henry McNeal Turner Biography: The Bishop Who Dared to Say “God Is a Negro”
