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