Title: Leading the race
Subtitle: the transformation of the Black elite in the nation's capital, 1880-1920
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.
Subjects: Social conditions, Elite (Social sciences), History, Afro-Americans, Race relations, African Americans, Washington (d.c.), social conditions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Cultural Heritage, Zwarten, Elites, Electronic books
Places: Washington (D.C.)
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century