Kremer (Missouri State Archivist) relates the remarkable story of Missouri's most prominent 19th-century African-American political figure. Annotation copyright

James Milton Turner, Missouri's most prominent nineteenth-century African American political figure, possessed a deep faith in America. The Civil War, he believ

The heroics of black Union soldiers in the Civil War have been justly celebrated, but their postwar lives largely neglected. Donald Shaffer's illuminating study

The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that

No one has written more about the African American experience in Missouri over the past four decades than Gary Kremer, and now for the first time fourteen of hi