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John Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 – November 2, 1939) was an American writer, attorney, military officer, author, and Republican politician who served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives and represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives .
John R. Lynch (born Sept. 10, 1847, Concordia Parish, La., U.S.—died Nov. 2, 1939, Chicago, Ill.) was a Black politician after the American Civil War who served in the Mississippi state legislature and U.S. House of Representatives and was prominent in Republican Party affairs of the 1870s and ’80s. Born into slavery, Lynch was freed during ...
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8 feb 2016 · John Roy Lynch was an American politician, writer, attorney, and military officer, who was born into slavery, gained freedom in 1863 and was subsequently elected to both the Mississippi House of Representatives and the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Facts of Reconstruction is a non-fiction book by John R. Lynch. The book, a rebuttal to critics of Reconstruction era policies in the United States, was first published in 1913.
A planter, Reconstruction-era politician, Republican civil servant, and important historian, John Roy Lynch was born on 10 September 1847 on Tacony plantation, near the town of Vidalia, Louisiana, in Concordia Parish. The biracial progeny of plantation manager Patrick Lynch, an Irish immigrant, and slave Catherine White, Lynch followed his mother’s status into slavery. While saving […]
Nel 2000 è sia attore che sceneggiatore del film Best, dedicato alla leggenda del calcio inglese George Best e diretto dalla moglie Mary McGuckian. È anche regista, ha diretto nel 1998 il film Night Train e scrittore di narrativa, il primo libro Torn Water è stato pubblicato nel 2005, il secondo Falling out of Heaven nel 2010 da una casa editric...
11 apr 2019 · Lynch, an African American who had represented the 6th congressional district of Mississippi in the mid-1870s, was writing against a large body of work that claimed Reconstruction was a failure—indeed, claimed that Black self-government was impossible, if not an abomination.
