Letter from Columbus Jones in Huntsville, Alabama, to R. M. Reynolds in Washington, D.C.
Jones was one of eighteen Black delegates at the 1867 Alabama Constitutional Convention, and he was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in August 1868 (he died in December of that year). In the letter, Jones urges Reynolds to explain to Congress the current conditions in the state, in th...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/23053 |