Orange Brunt

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Orange Brunt was a state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1875 representing Panola County.[1] He had a wife named Thursday and children.[2]

In November 1873, the Memphis Daily Appeal lamented his election but reassured that he and Dan Matthews were not "vicious Negroes".[3] An October 25, 1875 news brief in The Clarion-Ledger described him as a Radical Republican and states that he withdrew his candidacy (presumably for re-election) due to a "game" planned by Ozanne and Republican Party leaders were planning.[4] Urbain Ozanne was a sheriff in Panola County who tried to rein in Ku Klux Klan violence and murders.[5] The Mississippi Plan was a Southern Democrat strategy in 1875 of using threats and violence to eliminate African American voters and restore white supremacy.

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  1. ^ Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner, Louisiana State University Press (1996) page 30
  2. ^ "Orange Brunt (Panola County) · Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi · Mississippi State University Libraries". msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com.
  3. ^ "Memphis Daily Appeal clipping · Mississippi State University Libraries". msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com.
  4. ^ "Clarion-Ledger clipping · Mississippi State University Libraries". msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com.
  5. ^ Society, Mississippi Historical (May 5, 1913). "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society ... V. 1-14". The Society – via Google Books.
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