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The Rise and Fall of the Union League
Reverend Henry McNeil Turner was the army's first black chaplain during the Civil War. He channeled his organizing skills into politics building up the Georgia Republican Party Through a group called the Union League Northerners had created the Union League in 1862 to inspire patriotic support for the Union war effort After the war the League rapidly spread south to encourage black political activism, especially in the Republican Party In the spring and summer of 1867 Turner launched Union League chapters across Georgia. By the end of 1867 Virtually every southern black voter would become a member of the Union League or a similar organization.
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