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The senator and the socialite : the true story of America's first Black dynasty
- Title
- The senator and the socialite : the true story of America's first Black dynasty / Lawrence Otis Graham.
- Author
- Graham, Lawrence.
- Publication
- New York : HarperCollins, c2006.
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- Description
- xxiv, 455 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898
- United States > Congress > Senate > Biography
- Legislators > United States > Biography
- Bruce, Josephine
- African American legislators > Biography
- Bruce, Roscoe Conkling, 1879-1950
- Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898 > Family
- Black author
- Bruce family
- Legislators' spouses > United States > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-435) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 06-936
- ISBN
- 0060184124 (acid-free paper)
- 0061120790 (lg. print : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2005055146
- 9780060184124
- OCLC
- 62326859
- Author
- Graham, Lawrence.
- Title
- The senator and the socialite : the true story of America's first Black dynasty / Lawrence Otis Graham.
- Imprint
- New York : HarperCollins, c2006.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-435) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780060184124
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 06-936