![]() ![]() ![]() "For Black men of talent and ambition, the Army flung open a door to advancement and respectability." - Eric Foner (pg. ![]() "It transformed a war of armies into a conflict of societies, ensuring that Union victory would produce a social revolution in the South." - Eric Foner (pg. Maurice Jasper - George Washington's Slave Alston - Union League Political OrganizerĪlfred Wright - Union League Political OrganizerĬalvin Rogers - Union League Political Organizer Thomas Fortune - Southern Slave / Activist Thomas Allen - Union League Political Organizer James Lynch - Union League Political Organizer Sanders - Union League Political Organizer Bradley - escaped slave who went on to practice law in MAĮlizabeth Cady Stanton - Female Suffragist Norton - escaped slave who went on to practice medicine in NYĪaron A. Mary Peake - established the first school for blacks in Hampton, VA in 1861ĭr. Holland Thompson - Former Slave and Alabama Legislator Pierpont - Railroad attorney & WV Governor during Reconstruction Rock - first Black lawyer admitted to the bar of the Supreme Courtįrancis H. ![]()
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