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Bookmark or Share- George W. Williams, Writer, and Global Activist - African ...George Washington Williams, a Black historian, minister, officer, and writer, was born on this date in 1849. Williams was born in Bedford Springs, PA, and enlisted in the Union Army at 14. He served and went on to become a lieutenant colonel in the Mexican Army, and after the fall of Maximilian, he moved west.
- George Washington Williams (1849-1891) - BlackpastGeorge Washington Williams was a 19th-century Baptist minister, Civil War veteran, attorney, and politician who was the first African American elected to the Ohio State Legislature.
- George Washington Williams | Civil War, African American ...George Washington Williams was an American historian, clergyman, politician, lawyer, lecturer, and soldier who was the first person to write an objective and scientifically researched history of black people in the United States.
- George Washington Williams’ History of the Negro Race in ...George Washington Williams (1849–1891) lived the sort of picaresque life not often imagined possible for nineteenth-century African Americans. At the age of fourteen he falsified an identity and joined the Union army for the last battles of the Civil War.
- George Washington Williams: A Historian Ahead of His TimeFew Americans today recognize the name George Washington Williams, and those who do likely remember him as the hero who first exposed King Leopold’s “benevolent enterprise” in the Congo as brutal imperialism. But before Williams travelled to Africa, he had established himself as an important figure inside the United States.
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