Calvin Pepper was a lawyer who represented African Americans and Loyal League members in Virginia after the American Civil War. He testified before congress about the conditions in Virginia.[1]
"NRA veteran and Free Democrat"[2] George Henry Evans's National Reform Association (NRA)? a working class movement for radical land redistribution. National Reform Association (1844)
He was white.
In a delegation with Frederick Douglass here
He represented claimants seeking compensation for forced labor at forts during the American Civil War.[3]
References
edit- ^ Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session, Thirty-ninth Congress: Resolutions, committees, etc. Government Pint. Office. 1866. ISBN 978-0-8371-2355-4.
- ^ Lause, Mark A. (December 2011). A Secret Society History of the Civil War. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252093593.
- ^ Berlin, Ira (26 November 1993). Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41742-6.
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