Biography: Ransier, Alonzo Jacob

Alonzo J. Ransier

Biography: Ransier, Alonzo Jacob

11/28/2016

Biography

This South Carolina Encyclopedia presents a 2016 biography on Alonzo Ransier. Themes include: Alonzo Ransier's free upbringing in Charleston, his work as an editor of a Black newspaper, his politcal career as a state and U.S. Congressman. Other themes include: his support for women's suffrage, land for freedmen and civil rights statutes that prevented racial discrimination.

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