The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

492 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history race challenging informative slow-paced
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In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction...

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