Henry McNeal Turner

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One of the most influential African American leaders in late-nineteenth-century Georgia, Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.) in Georgia.

Courtesy of Georgia Historical Society.

Henry McNeal Turner

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