The senator and the socialite : the true story of America's first black dynasty / Lawrence Otis Graham
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TextPublication details: New York : Harper Perennial, 2007Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edDescription: xxviii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN: 9780060985134; 0060985135Subject(s): Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898 | Bruce, Josephine | Bruce, Roscoe Conkling, 1879-1950 | Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898 -- Family | Bruce family | United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography | Legislators -- United States -- Biography | African American legislators -- Biography | Legislators' spouses -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biographies. | Biography. | Biographies. LOC classification: E664.B865 | G73 2007E664.B865 | G73 2007
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
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Originally published: HarperCollins, 2006
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-435) and index
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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