“All for Civil Rights”
Ransier was born free in Charleston on January 3, He received limited schooling and by was employed as a clerk with a Charleston shipping firm. He attended the Colored People’s Convention in Charleston. He and 52 other delegates urged the State Legislature to reject the Black Codes. He presented a framed memorial from the Convention to Congress. He served as a delegate at the State Constitutional Convention in and in the State House of Representatives from to He was elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in becoming the first black man elected to that office in State’s history. He was president of the Southern States Convention at Columbia in Ransier was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in and was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, –March 3, ). A strong advocate for equal education, Ransier voted against the Civil Rights Act because the bill had been amended to omit its requirement of equality in public schools. After leaving Congress, he served as the United States Internal Revenue Collector for the Second District of South Carolina in and He died in Charleston on August 17, and was i
Alonzo J. Ransier ()
Alonzo Jacob Ransier, an African American Republican from South Carolina, held a series of political posts during the Reconstruction era. Ransier was born a free black man in Charleston in Little is known of his childhood and early education. At the end of the Civil War he worked as a shipping clerk. In , at the age of 31, he was appointed state registrar of elections. The following year, , Ransier attended South Carolina’s first Republican convention and two years later was elected to the Constitutional Convention which established the state’s first racially integrated government. Ransier served in that government when he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in In Ransier was elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. Ransier was a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. That same year he was elected to the Forty-Third United States Congress from the 2nd Congressional District.
Ransier was actively committed to the cause of equality for the African American citizens of South Carolina and the nation. While in Congress he fought for a civil rights bill, supported strong tariff laws, opposed arbit
Alonzo Ransier: South Carolina’s first black lt. governor
By Damon L. Fordham
It is not widely known today that there were a large number of black politicians during the post Civil-War period known as the Reconstruction era who are now largely forgotten. Among them was Alonzo Jacob Ransier, who served as lieutenant governor of South Carolina from to
Ransier was born to a free family in Charleston on January 3, It is believed that his parents were Haitians who escaped that country’s revolution in the s. He received an education in Charleston’s underground schools for black free children, which encouraged his gift for eloquent writing and speaking. After the end of slavery, Ransier joined with a number of both free blacks and former slaves who wrote a document demanding their rights in the new post-slavery society.
The age immediately after slavery from to was known as the Reconstruction era in the Southern states. During this period, the 14thq Amendment, giving blacks their rights as citizens of the United States, was passed in In January of that year, 76 blacks and 43 whites met in Charleston to rewrite the state’s Constitution to provide equal and educatio
I love studying the Reconstruction era because there were so many wins for our people. We had Senators and Congressmen, representatives in almost every level of government. What a time! I was surprised to learn about South Carolina&#;s Black Lt. Governor! Who woulda thought?
Alonzo J. Ransier was the first Black Lieutenant Governor of SC and a Congressman.
Ransier was born free in Charleston on January 3, , to parents who may have been immigrants from Haiti. He acquired the equivalent of a common school education and worked as a clerk at a Charleston shipping firm prior to the Civil War.
Ransier attended the Colored People’s Convention at Charleston’s Zion Presbyterian Church, a gathering of freedmen held in order to “advance the interests of our people.” He spoke in defense of the competence of black people and commended the black men who had fought with the Union army. He served as associate editor of the Charleston Leader, a postwar black newspaper.
In Ransier represented Charleston County in the constitutional convention. He pursued a moderate course, favoring the Reverend Richard H. Cain’s petition to Congress appealing for funds to provide land to the fre
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