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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.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2012]
©2012

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Wormley, James, 1819-1884.
Wormley, James, 1819-1884.
Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
Free African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
Free African Americans.
Washington (D.C.)
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
African Americans.
Hotelkeepers -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
Hotelkeepers.
Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Washington (D.C.)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Demonstration (Washington, D.C. : 1971)
African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Segregation.
African Americans -- Government policy -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Government policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Gelderman, Carol W. Free man of color and his hotel. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2012 9781597978330 (DLC) 2011041712 (OCoLC)733238375
ISBN 9781597978347 (electronic book)
1597978345 (electronic book)
9781597978330
1597978337