Title: Leading the race : the transformation of the Black elite in the nation's capital, 1880-1920 /
Authors: Moore, Jacqueline M., 1965-
Publisher: University Press of Virginia,
Year: 1999
Subjects: African Americans Washington (D.C.) Social conditions; African Americans Washington (D.C.) Social conditions; Elite (Social sciences) Washington (D.C.) History; Elite (Social sciences) Washington (D.C.) History; Washington (D.C.) Race relations.; Washington (D.C.) Social conditions; Washington (D.C.) Social conditions
Abstract: "Historians of the African American experience after Reconstruction have tended to imply that the black elite served only their own interests, that their exclusive control of black institutions precluded efforts to improve the status of African Americans in general. In Leading the Race, Jacqueline M. 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."--Jacket.
Contents: The Washington Black elite: an 1880s overview -- The family -- Culture and leisure -- The church -- Primary and secondary education -- Howard University and higher education -- Occupation and enterprise -- Charitable, professional, and fraternal organizations -- Race and racial uplift.