Fact stranger than fiction
Subtitle: seventy-five years of a busy life with reminiscences of many great and good men and women
By: by John P. Green
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Biography; Free African Americans; African American lawyers; African American legislators
Other titles: A digitized library of Southern literature.
Description: John Green's reminiscences open with an account of his family history and childhood as a free African American in New Bern, NC. In 1857, his family moved to Cleveland and he began to attend school in earnest, eventually finishing high school and then studying law at Union Law College. After a short sojourn in South Carolina, where he first entered Republican politics, he returned to Cleveland. There, over many years, he practiced law and assumed political office, first as a justice of the peace, then as a member of the Ohio General Assembly where he eventually became the first black senator. Included throughout the book are descriptions of many of his clients and cases, his European travels, and letters and anecdotes testifying to the many prominent people he met during his long career.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed June 15, 2004)

Includes index.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection A digitized library of Southern literature.

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Transcribed from: Fact stranger than fiction : seventy-five years of a busy life with reminiscences of many great and good men and women / by John P. Green. Cleveland, O. : Riehl Printing Company, 1920. xv, 368 p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm.

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