Sunday Lecture: Tunis Campbell - Reconstruction Politician

Name: Sunday Lecture: Tunis Campbell - Reconstruction Politician
Start: 2025-02-02T15:00:00-05:00
Location: 100 Village Green Cir SE, Smyrna, GA, United States, Georgia 30080

Schedule

Sun Feb 02 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

100 Village Green Cir SE, Smyrna, GA, United States, Georgia 30080 | Smyrna, GA

Tunis Campbell - Reconstruction Politician
by William Marchione
Sunday, February 2, 2025
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Public Library, Meeting Room
Light refreshments will be served.
Tunis Campbell was the highest-ranking and most influential African American politician in nineteenth-century Georgia. Born to free black parents in New Jersey in 1812, Campbell worked as an abolitionist often sharing a stage with Frederick Douglass. After the Civil War, he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia and served as vice president of the Republican Party of Georgia. As a justice of the peace, a minister, and a politician, he worked to protect the rights of freed African Americans during Reconstruction.
The Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.