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" The senator and the socialite : "
Lawrence Otis Graham.
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BL
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1006773
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b761143
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Graham, Lawrence.
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The senator and the socialite : : the true story of America's first black dynasty /\ Lawrence Otis Graham.
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1st Harper Perennial ed.
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New York :: Harper Perennial,, 2007.
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xxviii, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, portraits ;; 21 cm
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0060985135
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: 9780060985134
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| Notes
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Originally published: HarperCollins, 2006.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-435) and index.
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| Contents
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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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Bruce, Blanche Kelso,1841-1898-- Family.
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Bruce, Blanche Kelso,1841-1898.
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Bruce, Josephine.
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Bruce, Roscoe Conkling,1879-1950.
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Bruce, Blanche Kelso,1841-1898.
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Bruce, Josephine.
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Bruce, Roscoe Conkling,1879-1950.
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Bruce family.
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Bruce family.
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United States.
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United States.
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African American legislators, Biography.
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Legislators' spouses-- United States, Biography.
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Legislators-- United States, Biography.
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African American legislators.
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Families.
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Legislators' spouses.
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Legislators.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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929/.208996073
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E664.B865G73 2007
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