Romulus Moore
Reverend Romulus Moore (January 1818 – before 1888) was an American politician and leader of the early civil rights movement after the American Civil War during the Reconstruction Era in the U.S. state of Georgia. An African American, Moore was elected to the state legislature in 1868. Moore was expelled from the legislature in 1868 along with other African Americans (Original 33) and reinstated in the Georgia General Assembly in 1870 by an Act of Congress. Reverend Moore was active in advocating the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Biography Childhood and call to the ministry The Rev. Romulus Moore was born a slave in Taliaferro County, Georgia, in January 1818. He was reared in the family of James Moore (white) and educated with Moore's children. Through his education, the Rev. Moore purchased his own freedom. The future Reverend Moore was a wild young man until 1860, when he met and married a Miss Mary E ...
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Columbia County, Georgia
Columbia County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 156,010. The legal county seat is Appling, but the ''de facto'' seat of county government is Evans.Columbia Court House
at Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, website. Accessed February 15, 2008. Columbia County is included in the Augusta-Richmond County, GA- SC metropolitan statistical area. It is located along the
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