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03942aam a2200505Ii 4500 001 7539920CFF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20220910012104 008 170125t20172017nyubefj b 001 0deng d 020 $a 0062346091 020 $a 9780062346094 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)970397702 040 $a CGP $b eng $e rda $c CGP $d IGA $d OCLCF $d UAB $d BDX $d YDX $d WIM $d IW5 $d SILO 043 $a n-us-dc $a n-us-dc 050 4 $a E185.93.D6 $b T39 2017 050 4 $a E185.97.M93 $b T39 2017 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling, $e author. 245 14 $a The original Black elite : $b Daniel Murray and the story of a forgotten era / $c Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. 250 $a First edition. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, $c 2017. 300 $a 498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, map, plans, genealogical table ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-464) and index. 505 0 $a Prologue -- Up and coming -- The good wife -- The Black elite -- The good life -- The good citizen -- Activist couple -- Backsliding -- Confronting lost ground -- National Afro-American Council -- Black history pioneer -- Courting controversy -- Struggling -- Father and sons -- Disillusioned -- Life's work -- Ironic fruits -- New negro/Old cit -- Epilogue. 520 $a "In the wake of the Civil War, Daniel Murray, born free and educated in Baltimore, was in the vanguard of Washington, D.C.'s black upper class. Appointed Assistant Librarian at the Library of Congress--at a time when government appointments were the most prestigious positions available for blacks--Murray became wealthy through his business as a construction contractor and married a college-educated socialite. The Murrays' social circles included some of the first African-American U.S. Senators and Congressmen, and their children went to the best colleges--Harvard and Cornell. Though Murray and other black elite of his time were primed to assimilate into the cultural fabric as Americans first and people of color second, their prospects were crushed by Jim Crow segregation and the capitulation to white supremacist groups by the government, which turned a blind eye to their unlawful--often murderous--acts. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor traces the rise, fall, and disillusionment of upper-class African Americans, revealing that they were a representation not of hypothetical achievement but what could be realized by African Americans through education and equal opportunities. As she makes clear, these well-educated and wealthy elite were living proof that African Americans did not lack ability to fully participate in the social contract as white supremacists claimed, making their subsequent fall when Reconstruction was prematurely abandoned all the more tragic" -- provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne, $d 1852-1925. 610 20 $a National Afro-American Council. 650 0 $a African American librarians $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American intellectuals $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a African American intellectuals $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Upper class African Americans $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Upper class African Americans $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African American leadership $x History. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $y 1877-1964. 651 0 $a United States $x History. $x History. 941 $a 7 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240702032500.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314013850.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019014028.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170722010823.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20170505015257.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20170412022341.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20170331010339.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7539920CFF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search