Leading the race
Subtitle: the transformation of the Black elite in the nation's capital, 1880-1920
By: Jacqueline M. Moore.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Elite (Social sciences) -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century; Elite (Social sciences) -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 20th century; Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index.