Draft:Calvin Pepper
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". 1866.
- ^ Lause, Mark A. (December 2011). A Secret Society History of the Civil War. ISBN 9780252093593.
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=JTHFpx1niRgC&dq=Calvin+Pepper+negro&pg=PA111
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