Nelson Gill

Nelson Green Gill was a politician and educator. The Ku Klux Klan tried to murder him. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[1] He lived in Mississippi after the war and was appointed sheriff and to the board of supervisors. He also served in the state legislature and as sergeant at arms.[2]

He served as a Freedmen's Bureau agent in Holly Springs, Mississippi after the American Civil War.[3] A Democratic Party spokesman passed a death threat to him from the Klan.[4] An assassination attempt against him by the Klan failed.[4] He worked to organize African Americans in Oxford, Mississippi into a Loyal League.[5]

Gill was critical of abuses of apprenticeship laws including the binding of a teenager to her former slaveowner instead of letting her live with her mother.[6]

Gill was targeted for his political activities and because he fraternized with African Americans.[7]

He served as president of the board of supervisors from 1869 to 1871.[8]

References
  1. The Lewis Publishing Company. An Illustrated History of Southern California embracing the counties of San Diego San Bernardino Los Angeles and Orange and the peninsula of lower California. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. 1890.
  2. Society, Mississippi Historical (October 1, 1912). "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society" – via Google Books.
  3. Franke, Katherine (November 6, 2015). Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479815999 – via Google Books.
  4. Newton, Michael (December 21, 2009). The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi: A History. McFarland. ISBN 9780786457045 – via Google Books.
  5. Society, Mississippi Historical (October 1, 1913). "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society ... V. 1-14". The Society – via Google Books.
  6. Wood, Betsy (September 14, 2020). Upon the Altar of Work: Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252052323 – via Google Books.
  7. McKee, Kathryn B. (January 8, 2019). Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807170526 – via Google Books.
  8. Society, Mississippi Historical (October 1, 1912). "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society". The Society – via Google Books.


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