Sunday Lecture: Tunis Campbell - Reconstruction Politician
Schedule
Sun, 02 Feb, 2025 at 03:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
100 Village Green Cir SE, Smyrna, GA, United States, Georgia 30080 | Smyrna, GA
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Tunis Campbell - Reconstruction Politicianby 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.
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100 Village Green Cir SE, Smyrna, GA, United States, Georgia 30080Event Location & Nearby Stays:
