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The senator and the socialite : the true story of America's first Black dynasty / Lawrence Otis Graham

Author
Graham, Lawrence
Published
New York : HarperCollins, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
xxiv, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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Contents
1875: A senator is sworn in and a dynasty begins -- 1841-1861: Blanche Bruce's slave family in Virginia and Missouri -- 1841-1860: The free aristocratic family of Josephine Wilson -- 1862-1870: Bruce finds Kansas freedom, Ohio education, and Mississippi reconstruction -- 1870-1874: Bruce builds a base of power in Mississippi and is elected to the U.S. Senate -- 1877-1878: A senator and a socialite Marry despite family and class conflicts -- 1878: A Black dynasty begins -- 1879-1880: A new child and a new redemption congress -- 1880-1888: Bruce leaves the Senate, joins the Treasury Department, then enters private life -- 1889-1895: Bruce persuades President Harrison to give him a job and his wife gains her independence -- 1895-1898: The senator gets appointed by President McKinley as his son breaks barriers at Phillips Exeter; the senator dies -- March 1898-June 1902: The senator's son begins a courtship at Harvard, and the senator's widow carries out a legacy -- 1902: Roscoe builds an alliance with Booker T. Washington -- 1902: A marriage of the second generation, and life in Tuskegee -- December 1903-1906: Roscoe and Clara build the next generation -- 1906-1914: A triumphant return to Washington life: the Bruce family's second generation emerges -- 1915-1922: Roscoe's downfall in Washington -- 1923-1924: Roscoe struggles with Harvard's President, his family finances, and his children's success -- 1925-1929: The family moves to Cambridge and New York, and Roscoe builds an alliance with John D. Rockefeller Jr. -- 1930-1939: The third generation makes news, and the senator's grandson goes to prison -- 1940-1967: The third Bruce generation erases a proud history.
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ISBN
0060184124 (acid-free paper)
0061120790 (lg. print : acid-free paper)
Collection
Charles L. Blockson Collection of African Americana and the African Diaspora.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-435) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Harrisburg copy: Purchased with funds from the Library of the Future Campaign; 20067.
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