For labor, race, and liberty : George Edwin Taylor, his historic run for the White House, and the making of independent Black politics / Bruce L. Mouser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mouser.

Contributor:

Bruce L..

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taylor, George Edwin, 1857-1925--Political activity.

African American presidential candidates--Biography.

African American presidential candidates.

African American politicians--19th century--Biography.

African American politicians.

African American politicians--20th century--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Taylor, George Edwin, 1857-1925--Political activity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Orphaned as a child at the peak of the Civil War, Taylor spent several years experiencing homelessness before boarding a Mississippi riverboat that dropped him in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Taken in by an African American farm family, Taylor attended a private school and eventually rose to prominence as the owner/editor of a labor newspaper and as a vocal leader in Wisconsin's People's Party. At a time when many African Americans felt allegiance to the Republican Party for its support of abolition, Taylor's sympathy with the labor cause drew him first to the national Democratic Party and then to an African American party, the newly formed National Liberty Party, which in 1904 named him its presidential candidate. Bruce L. Mouser follows Taylor's life and career in Arkansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida, giving life to a figure representing a generation of African American idealists whose initial post-slavery belief in political and social equality in America gave way to the despair of the Jim Crow decades that followed.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. From Orphaned Black to Printer's Devil: Taylor's Early Years in "God's Country"

Chapter 2. Labor Agitator, Newspaper Editor, and Political Novice: Schools of Hard Knocks

Chapter 3. Emergence of a Black Activist: Succeeding in the African American World

Chapter 4. Taylor as the National Democrat: Black and Equal

Chapter 5. Taylor's Campaign to Become President: A Duty to Himself and His Race

Chapter 6. Escape to a Warm Place: Retreat and Reconstruct

Conclusion

Appendix A: Taylor's Interview with the Sun after the 1904 Election

Appendix B: Election Data for Nine Political Parties and Candidates in the 1904 Election

Appendix C: Chart of George Edwin Taylor's Life

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612916441

9781282916449

1282916440

9780299249137

0299249131

OCLC:

699513560