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A Free Man of Color and His Hotel : Race, Reconstruction, and the Role of the Federal Government / Carol Gelderman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gelderman, Carol W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Government policy--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Segregation--History--19th century.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Washington (D.C.).
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Hotelkeepers--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- Hotelkeepers.
- African Americans--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- Free African Americans--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- Free African Americans.
- Washington (D.C.)--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.).
- Wormley, James, 1819-1884.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The amazing story of a nineteenth-century businessman, Reconstruction, and the Constitution
- Contents:
- What Might Have Been : James Wormley's Life to the Opening of his Eponymous Hotel
- Grant's Second Administration and Needed Reform : The Issue of the 1876 Election and Wormley's Continued Success
- In the Blink of an Eye : Growing and Receding Federal Protection of Civil Rights and Wormley's Generosity in Helping Others of his Race
- Election
- We, the Other People
- Resolution of Election
- States' Rights Ride Supreme and the Closing of the Wormley Hotel
- Epilogue: Then and Now.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-59797-834-5
- OCLC:
- 779166270
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