Kelly Miller
Winnsboro native Kelly Miller (1863-1939), born of a former slave less than a year after the Emancipation Proclamation, went on to become a professor and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University. He became known as one of the most articulate and prolific spokesmen for social justice during the first half of the twentieth century.
Miller became a syndicated columnist whose weekly letter to the editor was carried in more than a hundred newspapers. Dozens of his essays and articles appeared in such periodicals as the Atlantic Monthly, the Christian Century, the Independent, Crisis, Forum, Dial, Opportunity, Outlook, and Southern Workman. Among his books are Race Adjustment (1908); Out of the House of Bondage (1914); An Appeal to Conscious (1916); Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights (1919), and The Everlasting Stain (1924).
Miller became a syndicated columnist whose weekly letter to the editor was carried in more than a hundred newspapers. Dozens of his essays and articles appeared in such periodicals as the Atlantic Monthly, the Christian Century, the Independent, Crisis, Forum, Dial, Opportunity, Outlook, and Southern Workman. Among his books are Race Adjustment (1908); Out of the House of Bondage (1914); An Appeal to Conscious (1916); Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights (1919), and The Everlasting Stain (1924).
