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For labor, race, and liberty : George Edwin Taylor, his historic run for the White House, and the making of independent Black politics / Bruce L. Mouser.
- Title
- For labor, race, and liberty : George Edwin Taylor, his historic run for the White House, and the making of independent Black politics / Bruce L. Mouser.
- Author
- Mouser, Bruce L.
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | E185.97.T39 M68 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiii, 253 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party's nominee for president of the United States, running against Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.-publisher's description.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- From orphaned black to printer's devil: Taylor's early years in "God's country" -- Labor agitator, newspaper editor, and political novice: schools of hard knocks -- Emergence of a black activist: succeeding in the African American world -- Taylor as the national democrat: black and equal -- Taylor's campaign to become president: a duty to himself and his race -- Escape to a warm place: retreat and reconstruct.
- ISBN
- 9780299249144 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 029924914X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780299249137 (e-book)
- 0299249131 (e-book)
- LCCN
- ^^2010011577
- OCLC
- 593629225
- SCSB-12767885
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library