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Author:

Gelderman, Carol W. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78051772

Title:

A free man of color and his hotel : race, Reconstruction, and the role of the federal government / Carol Gelderman.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Potomac Books,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xiii, 162 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Wormley, James,--1819-1884.
Free African Americans--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
African Americans--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
Hotelkeepers--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Washington (D.C.)
Washington (D.C.)--History--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1597978345
9781597978347
1597978337
9781597978330

OCLC:

(OCoLC)733238375

LCCN:

2011041712

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)