This book provides biolographical sketches and relevant documents on African Americans elected to Congress in the wake of the Civil War.
Foreword by John David Smith Editorial Statement Introduction Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce Representative Richard Harvey Cain Representative Henry Cheatham Representative Robert Carlos De Large Representative Robert Brown Elliott Representative Jeremiah Haralson Representative John Adams Hyman Representative John Mercer Langston Representative Jefferson Franklin Long Representative John Roy Lynch Representative Thomas Ezekiel Miller Representative George Washington Murray Representative Charles Edmund Nash Representative James Edward OHara Representative Joseph Hayne Rainey Representative Alonzo Jacob Ransier Representative James Thomas Rapier Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels Representative Robert Smalls Representative Benjamin Sterling Turner Representative Josiah Thomas Walls Representative George Henry White References Index
STEPHEN MIDDLETON is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. He is the author of The Black Laws in the Old Northwest: A Documentary History (Greenwood, 1993). His specialty is U.S. Constitutional History with a research interest in race and constitutional and legal history.
?[S]ignificant contribution to Reconstruction historiography by
examining the careers of twenty-two lawmakers who represented eight
southern states in Congress from 1868S1901....Middletown has
rescued black officeholders from the grasp of the Dunning School
and near obscurity....Serious readers of souther history will find
a place for Middleton's well-written book in their libraries.?-The
Alabama Review
?Stephen Middleton's excellent new documentary history gives us the
record of the two black senators and twenty black representatives
who held national office from 1870 to 1901, when the last of them
was driven from office....Middleton's collection of congressional
speeches will be a permanent contribution to the history of racial
politics during the Gilded Age and a corrective to racist ideas
that were dominant for the better part of a century.?-The Journal
of Southern History
?The words spoken by these men in the House and Senate shed
much-needed light on the state of race relations in 19th-century
America.?-College & Research Libraries News
"ÝS¨ignificant contribution to Reconstruction historiography by
examining the careers of twenty-two lawmakers who represented eight
southern states in Congress from 1868S1901....Middletown has
rescued black officeholders from the grasp of the Dunning School
and near obscurity....Serious readers of souther history will find
a place for Middleton's well-written book in their libraries."-The
Alabama Review
"[S]ignificant contribution to Reconstruction historiography by
examining the careers of twenty-two lawmakers who represented eight
southern states in Congress from 1868S1901....Middletown has
rescued black officeholders from the grasp of the Dunning School
and near obscurity....Serious readers of souther history will find
a place for Middleton's well-written book in their libraries."-The
Alabama Review
"The words spoken by these men in the House and Senate shed
much-needed light on the state of race relations in 19th-century
America."-College & Research Libraries News
"Stephen Middleton's excellent new documentary history gives us the
record of the two black senators and twenty black representatives
who held national office from 1870 to 1901, when the last of them
was driven from office....Middleton's collection of congressional
speeches will be a permanent contribution to the history of racial
politics during the Gilded Age and a corrective to racist ideas
that were dominant for the better part of a century."-The Journal
of Southern History
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