James T. Rapier

James Thomas Rapier () yaiku pulitikus Afrika-Amerika asal Alabama ing Era Rekonstruksi. Ia ngejabat minangka anggota DPR Amerika Sarekat saka Alabama, ing siji masa jabatan saka 1873 nganti 1875. Lair merdika ing Alabama, ia lumebu perguruan tinggi lan entuk gelar hukum ing Sekotlan lan Kanadha sadurunge kerja ing Tennessee.

Referensi

Wacaan tambahan 
 Bailey, Richard. They Too Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles, 1800-1999. Montgomery: Pyramid Publishing, 1999.
 Feldman, Eugene. Black Power in Old Alabama: The Life and Stirring Times of James T. Rapier, Afro-American Congressman from Alabama, 1839-1883. Chicago: Museum of African American History, 1968.
 Feldman, E. "James T. Rapier: Negro Congressman from Alabama." Phylon Quarterly 19 (4th Quarter, 1958): 417-423.
 Freeman, Thomas J. The Life of James T. Rapier. M. A. Thesis, Auburn University, 1959
 Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction., (Baton Rouge: LSU Press: 1996) second edition. 
 Franklin, John Hope. A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976)
 Logan, Rayford W. and Michael R. Winston, Dictionary of American Negro Biography (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1982)
 Rabinowitz, Howard N., ed., Southern Black Leaders of the Reconstruction Era, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982), pp. 79–100.
 Ragsdale, Bruce A. and Joel D. Treese, Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990).
 Schweninger, Loren. James T. Rapier and Reconstruction (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978)
 Schweninger, L. "James Rapier and the Negro Labor Movement, 1869-1872," Alabama Review 28 (July 1975): 185-201.
 "James Thomas Rapier" in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2008

Pranala jaba 
 Congressional biography
 James T. Rapier's June 9, 1874 Speech on the Civil Rights Bill
 John Hope Franklin, "1979 presidential address to the American Historical Association", discusses Walter F. Fleming's representation of Congressman James T. Rapier as a "carpetbagger"
 

Pulitikus saka Florence, Alabama