A Free Man of Color and His Hotel : Race, Reconstruction, and the Role of the Federal Government /

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The amazing story of a nineteenth-century businessman, Reconstruction, and the Constitution.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gelderman, Carol W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wormley, James, > 1819-1884.
Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
Race relations.
Hotelkeepers.
Free African Americans.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Government policy.
African Americans.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Small Business.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Noirs americains > Politique gouvernementale > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Segregation > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Hôteliers > Washington (D.C.) > Biographies.
Noirs americains > Washington (D.C.) > Biographies.
Noirs americains affranchis > Washington (D.C.) > Biographies.
African Americans > Government policy > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Segregation > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Washington (D.C.)
Hotelkeepers > Washington (D.C.) > Biography.
African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > Biography.
Free African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > Biography.
Washington (D.C.)
United States.
Washington (D.C.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Washington (D.C.) > Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What Might Have Been : James Wormley's Life to the Opening of his Eponymous Hotel
  • Grant's Second Administration and Needed Reform : The Issue of the 1876 Election and Wormley's Continued Success
  • In the Blink of an Eye : Growing and Receding Federal Protection of Civil Rights and Wormley's Generosity in Helping Others of his Race
  • Election
  • We, the Other People
  • Resolution of Election
  • States' Rights Ride Supreme and the Closing of the Wormley Hotel
  • Epilogue: Then and Now.

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