Greene S. W. Lewis
Greene Shadrach Washington Lewis was a leader among African Americans and a state legislator in Alabama during the Reconstruction era 1868–1876.[1] He represented Perry County, Alabama.[2]
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On March 4, 1873, he gave a speech addressing the civil rights bill before the house starting with a jab at the Democrats and demagogue Republicans who tried first to postpone the bill indefinitely.[4]
The Livingston Journal published in Livingston, Alabama called for action from Democrats as it described a threat to large cotton belt landowners and claimed that in the last session of the house in 1874 Lewis called for the raising of taxes to a level high enough to force the large landowners to sell, enabling him and those like him to buy.[5]
He was a Perry County, Alabama delegate to the 1875 Alabama Constitutional Convention.[6][7] Greene was listed as a district delegate for the 1876 Republican National Convention.[8]
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References
- ^ "x-index :: Reconstruction :: Politics :: Lest We Forget". lestweforget.hamptonu.edu. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Black members of the Alabama Legislature who served during reconstruction – Alabama Historical Markers on Waymarking.com". www.waymarking.com.
- ISBN 978-9004384071– via Google Books.
- ^ "Greene Shadrach Washington Lewis speaks on The Civil Rights Bill". The Weekly Advertiser. 28 October 1874. p. 5. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Lewis calls for high taxes". The Livingston Journal. 24 April 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ Convention, Alabama Constitutional (December 29, 1875). "Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Alabama: Assembled in the City of Mongtomery September 6th, 1875". W. W. Screws, State Printer – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Convention – List of Delegates". The Opelika Times. 14 August 1875. p. 3. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ "Proceedings of the Republican National Convention Held at Cincinniati, Ohio, June 14, 15, and 16, 1876". Republican Press Association. December 29, 1876 – via Google Books.