For labor, race, and liberty
Subtitle: George Edwin Taylor, his historic run for the White House, and the making of independent Black politics
By: Bruce L. Mouser
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780299249144; 9780299249137
Subjects: African American presidential candidates; Political activity; Biography; African American politicians
Description: More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party's nominee for president of the United States, running against Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.-publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From orphaned black to printer's devil: Taylor's early years in "God's country"; title: Labor agitator, newspaper editor, and political novice: schools of hard knocks; title: Emergence of a black activist: succeeding in the African American world; title: Taylor as the national democrat: black and equal; title: Taylor's campaign to become president: a duty to himself and his race; title: Escape to a warm place: retreat and reconstruct.