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Author Gelderman, Carol W

Title A free man of color and his hotel : race, Reconstruction, and the role of the federal government / Carol Gelderman
Edition 1st ed
Published Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2012

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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
Summary The amazing story of a nineteenth-century businessman, Reconstruction, and the Constitution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Wormley, James, 1819-1884.
SUBJECT Wormley, James, 1819-1884
Wormley, James, 1819-1884 fast
Subject Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
SUBJECT Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.) fast
Subject Free African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography
African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography
Hotelkeepers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Washington (D.C.)
African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- Government policy -- History -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Small Business.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans
African Americans -- Government policy
African Americans -- Segregation
Free African Americans
Hotelkeepers
Race relations
SUBJECT Washington (D.C.) -- Biography
Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject United States
Washington (D.C.)
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781597978347
1597978345