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Jacob Moorer

1863–1935

United States

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Jacob Moorer (April 1863 – February 27, 1935) was a South Carolina African-American lawyer and civil rights activist. He frequently fought cases in opposition to the elector provisions of the 1895 South Carolina Constitution, which he viewed as disenfranchising blacks. His most famous case was Franklin v.

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