A free man of color and his hotel
Subtitle: race, Reconstruction, and the role of the federal government
By: Carol Gelderman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781597978330; 9781597978347
Subjects: Race relations; Government policy; Hotelkeepers; Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.); Segregation; Free African Americans; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); African Americans; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What Might Have Been : James Wormley's Life to the Opening of his Eponymous Hotel; title: Grant's Second Administration and Needed Reform : The Issue of the 1876 Election and Wormley's Continued Success; title: In the Blink of an Eye : Growing and Receding Federal Protection of Civil Rights and Wormley's Generosity in Helping Others of his Race; title: Election; title: We, the Other People; title: Resolution of Election; title: States' Rights Ride Supreme and the Closing of the Wormley Hotel; title: Epilogue: Then and Now.