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"Cincinnati Enquirer clipping",,,,,,"Cincinnati Enquirer",,1877-03-12,,,,,,,,,"Piles, James H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"[this article refers to the father of James H. Piles]
[From the Springfield (O.) Republic.]
Mr. Robert Piles, the leading colored man of Springfield, who, by his industry, perseverance and sound sense, commands the respect of all his fellow-citizens, says that President Hayes' Southern policy is the only correct one. The black people, he says, will never have full protection until Southern white men voluntarily accord and give it to them. The policy of trying to force them to do this has proved a failure.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,piles,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/42e881a3bfc52d292f0aad582bbfa654.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Cincinnati Enquirer clipping",,,,,,"Cincinnati Enquirer",,1894-08-17,,,,,,,,,"Piles, James H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Clerical Changes.
Among the dismissals from the War Department Monday were the following: Clerks, $1,200 per annum, Eden T. Woods, Thomas G. Taylor, James H. Piles and W. H. Fossett, Ohio; George W. Talburtt, Thomas G. Ash, David S. Waters, Mahlon McMurphy, Sidney A. Fitch and Abram L. Cabell, Kentucky; Bernard Wagner and Abram F. Springsteen, Indiana; James J. Barrick, West Virginia.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,piles,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/d0d4a061286a409d150b5bfb3dcc12e6.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Evening Star clipping",,,,,,"Evening Star",,1885-12-05,,,,,,,,,"Piles, James H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Promotions in the Patent office - Henry C. Hunteman, of Ohio, third to second assistant examiner, $1,600; Thomas Hayes, of Pa., and Wm. B. Roberts, of Minn., fourth to third assistant examiners, $1,400; James H. Piles, of Ohio, and John J. Lynch, of Ohio, clerk $1,200, to fourth assistant examiner, $1,200; Miss Lizzie S. Robinson, of Del., cler, $1,000 to $1,200; Charles Rhodes, of Ohio, copyist, $900 to clerk $1,200; Miss Emily L. Wilson, of N.Y., copyist, $900 to clerk $1,000.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,piles,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/6cd0f2b54a98cdbc655954ecdc088b75.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Jackson Standard clipping",,,,,,"Jackson Standard",,1869-03-25,,,,,,,,,"Piles, James H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Early Marriages in Jackson County.
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Robert Piles and Martha J. Yancey, April 11, by Ellery Bascom, Minister. [parents of James H. Piles]",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,piles,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/59267b97d986585a8a6be7bf4b512769.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Lancaster Gazette clipping",,,,,,"Lancaster Gazette",,1869-06-05,,,,,,,,,"Piles, James H.; African American lawyers",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"A coloured lawyer, Mr. James H. Piles, has been admitted to practise in the United States courts in New Orleans. He was admitted to practise at the bar of the state of Ohio some time ago.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,piles,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/78f803fc338c0220c12b9e5da725d8d0.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Mississippian clipping",,,,,,Mississippian,,1887-03-22,,,,,,,,,"Welborne, Eugene Bonaparte; Piles, James H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"We did not deem it necessary to deny the little but malignant falsehood started by the local editor of a certain paper with reference to the occupation of the editor of this paper in Washington, but as some other papers seem to have thought it true, we will correct it.
It is true that the editor was really a simple ""copy holder"" there for a few days, and that he was also the private secretary of one of our Senators, and that he also served as a simple clerk in different departments at Washington, but instead of having ""abandoned the tripod to accept"" any of these positions, he took them for the advantage and in the interest of his paper, and he gave in this and other papers such an expose of these departments as they never had before.
And he did devote a large portion of his time with some success to the effort to displace Republican negroes and carpet-baggers from Mississippi, and get the positions filled by some of our worthy Democrats.
And he did succeed in getting three staunch young Democrats of Mississippi into places that but for his efforts would yet be filled by carpet-baggers - he did succeed in getting turned out a respectable number of disrespectable Republican wretches, among them the notorious Jim Piles, and Eugene Welborne, whose case Mississippi's best Congressman had abandoned as hopeless, and given up all efforts to have him discharged.
And more than this he did give the people of Mississippi for the first time, a full, true knowledge of the innermost workings of our great Democratic administration - and he did dispassionately and faithfully give the facts about the most powerful of all Mississippians, the one of all our public men whom he had loved best and lauded most.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"piles,welborne",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/099a8b6f5b471d201907f73f63952c3d.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"National Republican clipping",,,,,,"National Republican",,1887-04-20,,,,,,,,,"Piles, James H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"""Pictures in the life lot of him who held the ribbons of the French revolution at 40"" will be the theme presented before the Bethel Literary this evening by Hon. James H. Piles, of Ohio.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,piles,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/32b46100ab045c489bdfae7111b95007.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"New National Era clipping",,,,,,"New National Era",,1873-03-27,,,,,,,,,"Piles, James H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"HON. JAMES H. PILES,
of Panola county. I am sorry to have no memorandum near me of this subject, and I am compelled to write from an imperfect knowledge. Mr. Piles is a native of Ohio, but came here in 1868. He was elected to the Legislature in 1869, served on several of the most important committees, and chairman of one of them. He takes an active part in all matters of legislation, and carries a great deal of weight on the side he enlists. His course in our first Legislature - under the reconstruction acts - gave perfect satisfaction to his constituents, and he was returned in 1871 by an increased majority. His experience of four years as a legislator gives him great weight, and he now commands an influence in the House second to very few. In appearance, he exhibits a predominance of Indian blood. His hair is of excellent quality, and hangs close to his cranium! He has a face which might be called handsome, finely adorned with a pair of large black eyes, and a heavy black moustache. He dresses in fine style, does not appear to be more than a yard and-a-half high, is a graduate of the High School of Springfield, Ohio, and doubtless is the best informed in literature of any of the colored members.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"bios,piles",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/6f3722aeeffa5b2d82797b2d185306a7.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Signature of James H. Piles",,"Signature of James H. Piles from an 1870 letter to Governor Alcorn.",,,,"Piles, James H.",,1870-04-01,,,,,,,,,"Piles, James H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"piles,signatures",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/7/2124/piles.PNG,"Still Image","Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Pittsburgh Daily Post clipping",,,,,,"Pittsburgh Daily Post",,1874-05-07,,,,,,,,,"Piles, James H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"MISSISSIPPI is the drawing-room of carpet-baggism, and no passport, save the fact of one's being a carpet-bagger and scoundrel, is necessary to secure admission. It is the Eldorado of the negro and the Mecca of pillagers and adventurers. Hon. James H. Piles is one of the latter class. He went down there from Ohio, and like all the rest of the kind adopted politics as his profession. For awhile he succeeded. He was elected to the Legislature and came very near being the nominee for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He finally concluded he would like to be Circuit Judge of his district, and would have been appointed had he not been convicted of stealing before it could be done. In anticipation of success, he had stolen law books from various attorneys of his town for the purpose, no doubt, of posting himself a little, and has been duly convicted of the crime. Instead of being a judge he is now a convict, and will have the pleasure of enjoying a long season of seclusion in jail. Of such is the kingdom of carpet-baggery.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,piles,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/6ff2e5988565e2eca6132bfa0ebdd6ca.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0