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

Publication Data

• Title A free man of color and his hotel : race, Reconstruction, and the role of the federal government
• Author Carol W. Gelderman
• Publisher Potomac Books
• Publication date 2012
• Publication location Washington, D.C.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Wormley, James, 1819-1884
• Wormley Hotel (Washington, D.C.)
• Free African Americans :: Washington (D.C.) :: Biography
• African Americans :: Washington (D.C.) :: Biography
• Hotelkeepers :: Washington (D.C.) :: Biography
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) :: Washington (D.C.)
• African Americans :: Segregation :: History :: 19th century
• African Americans :: Government policy :: History :: 19th century
• Washington (D.C.) :: Biography
• Washington (D.C.) :: Race relations :: History :: 19th century
• Washington (D.C.)

A free man of color and his hotel : race, Reconstruction, and the role of the federal government by Carol W. Gelderman. ISBN 9781597978330. Published by Potomac Books in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.