Aristocrats Of Color
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Aristocrats Of Color
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Author : Willard B. Gatewood
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2000-05-01
Aristocrats Of Color written by Willard B. Gatewood and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. --from publisher description.
Aristocrats Of Color
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Author : Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Aristocrats Of Color written by Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with African Americans categories.
Aristocrats Of Color
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Author : Willard B. Gatewood
language : en
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In the years following reconstruction, up until 1920, there developed in the United States a small yet self-aware and active aristocracy. detailed account of the most influential segment of the Afro-American community, illuminating distinctions in background, prestige, attitudes, behavior, power, and culture. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Aristocrats Of Color
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Author : Willard B. Gatewood
language : en
Publisher: William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Aristocrats Of Color written by Willard B. Gatewood and has been published by William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Colored Aristocracy Of St Louis
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Author : Cyprian Clamorgan
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1999-07-30
The Colored Aristocracy Of St Louis written by Cyprian Clamorgan and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-30 with Social Science categories.
In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the "colored aristocracy." In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, and where those who were free generally lived in abject poverty, Clamorgan's "aristocrats" were exceptional people. Wealthy, educated, and articulate, these men and women occupied a "middle ground." Their material advantages removed them from the mass of African Americans, but their race barred them from membership in white society. The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis is both a serious analysis of the social and legal disabilities under which African Americans of all classes labored and a settling of old scores. Somewhat malicious, Clamorgan enjoyed pointing out the foibles of his friends and enemies, but his book had a serious message as well. "He endeavored to convince white Americans that race was not an absolute, that the black community was not a monolith, that class, education, and especially wealth, should count for something." Despite its fascinating insights into antebellum St. Louis, Clamorgan's book has been virtually ignored since its initial publication. Using deeds, church records, court cases, and other primary sources, Winch reacquaints readers with this important book and establishes its place in the context of African American history. This annotated edition of The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis includes an introductory essay on African Americans in St. Louis before the Civil War, as well as an account of the lives of the author and the members of his remarkable family—a family that was truly at the heart of the city's "colored aristocracy" for four generations. A witty and perceptive commentary on race and class, The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis is a remarkable story about a largely forgotten segment of nineteenth-century society. Scholars and general readers alike will appreciate Clamorgan's insights into one of antebellum America's most important communities.
Leading The Race
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Author : Jacqueline M. Moore
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1999
Leading The Race written by Jacqueline M. Moore and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Moore reevaluates the role of this black elite by examining how their self-interest interacted with the needs of the black community in Washington, D.C., the center of black society at the turn of the century."--BOOK JACKET.
Aristocrats Of Color
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Author : Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Aristocrats Of Color written by Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An Aristocracy Of Color
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Author : D. Michael Bottoms
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2013-02-11
An Aristocracy Of Color written by D. Michael Bottoms and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-11 with Social Science categories.
In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S. Constitution raised the question of whether extending suffrage to black Californians might also lead to the political participation of thousands of Chinese immigrants. As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state’s legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians—blacks and Chinese in particular—recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed. Bottoms begins by analyzing white Californians’ mid-century efforts to prohibit nonwhite testimony against whites in court. Challenges to these laws by blacks and Chinese during Reconstruction followed a trajectory that would be repeated in later contests. Each minority challenged the others for higher status in court, at the polls, in education, and elsewhere, employing stereotypes and ideas of racial difference popular among whites to argue for its own rightful place in “civilized” society. Whites contributed to the melee by occasionally yielding to blacks in order to keep the Chinese and California Indians at a disadvantage. These dynamics reverberated in other state legal systems throughout the West in the mid- to late 1800s and nationwide in the twentieth century. As An Aristocracy of Color reveals, Reconstruction outside of the South briefly promised an opportunity for broader equality but in the end strengthened and preserved the racial hierarchy that favored whites.
Parlor Ladies And Ebony Drudges
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Author : Kibibi Voloria C. Mack
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 1999
Parlor Ladies And Ebony Drudges written by Kibibi Voloria C. Mack and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Social Science categories.
Focusing on the community of Orangeburg, South Carolina, from 1880 to 1940, Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges explores the often sharp class divisions that developed among African American women in that small, semirural area.
Robert R Church Jr And The African American Political Struggle
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Author : Darius J. Young
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2022-04-12
Robert R Church Jr And The African American Political Struggle written by Darius J. Young and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-12 with History categories.
Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc., C. Calvin Smith Book Award This volume highlights the little-known story of Robert R. Church Jr., the most prominent black Republican of the 1920s and 1930s. Tracing Church’s lifelong crusade to make race an important part of the national political conversation, Darius Young reveals how Church was critical to the formative years of the civil rights struggle. A member of the black elite in Memphis, Tennessee, Church was a banker, political mobilizer, and civil rights advocate who worked to create opportunities for the black community despite the notorious Democrat E. H. “Boss” Crump’s hold over Memphis politics. Spurred by the belief that the vote was the most pragmatic path to full citizenship in the United States, Church founded the Lincoln League of America, which advocated for the interests of black voters in over thirty states. He was instrumental in establishing the NAACP throughout the South as it investigated various incidents of racial violence in the Mississippi Delta. At the height of his influence, Church served as an advisor for Presidents Harding and Coolidge, generating greater participation of and recognition for African Americans in the Republican Party. Church’s life and career offer a window into the incremental, behind-the-scenes victories of black voters and leaders during the Jim Crow era that set the foundation for the more nationally visible civil rights movement to follow. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.