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#OTD Sept 3, 1868: Henry McNeal Turner delivers a speech before the Georgia legislature on its decision to expel him & 23 other African American representatives from the legislature for being black.

Danny Glover read an excerpt from this powerful speech.
Pt.1
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“If Black men want their sentiments expressed they must be adulterated and sent through white messengers who will quibble, equivocate and evade as rapidly as the pendulum on a clock”

#OTD Sept 3, 1868: Henry McNeal Turner’s speech before the Georgia legislature.
Pt.2
#History

“It is extraordinary, I say, that with all these advantages on your side, you can still make war upon the poor defenseless Black man”

#OTD Sept 3, 1868: Henry McNeal Turner’s speech before the Georgia legislature.
Read by Danny Glover
Pt.3
#History

#OTD Sept 3, 1868: Henry McNeal Turner’s speech before the Georgia legislature challenging his expulsion from the House.

Henry McNeal Turner was a minister, politician, Black Nationalist & the 12th elected & consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
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