Before Obama [2 Volumes]: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians (Hardcover)

Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante Preface Acknowledgments Introduction by Matthew Lynch Chapter 1 "No Peer in His Race": Robert Brown Elliott and the Racial Politics of Reconstruction Era South Carolina J. Brent Morris Chapter 2 A Lasting Legacy: James Edward O'Hara's Post-Reconstruction Struggle for Racial Equality Kevin E. Grimm Chapter 3 "That Is All We Ask For-an Equal Chance": Oscar James Dunn, Louisiana's First Black Lieutenant Governor Linda English Chapter 4 In the Midst of the "Nadir": Samuel A. McElwee and the Search for Democracy and Freedom Derrick D. McKisick Chapter 5 From "Just above Slave Level" to State Treasurer: Antoine Dubuclet and the Politics of Race in Reconstruction Louisiana Joshua Butler Chapter 6 Joseph Hayne Rainey and the Beginnings of Black Political Authority William P. Kladky Chapter 7 Race, Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, and a Renegade: The Rise and Fall of Tunis Campbell F. Erik Brooks Chapter 8 Footprints of Freedom: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs and the Pursuit of Equality across North America Jake Sudderth Chapter 9 The Biography of John Willis Menard, First African American Elected to the U.S. Congress Glenn L. Starks Chapter 10 "Rise in the Scale of Being": Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Philadelphia Ministry, and Florida Politics Kaye Wise Whitehead Chapter 11 "I Shall Not Be Muffled Here": Thomas E. Miller, the Lost African American Congressman, 1890-1891 Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu-Brayda Chapter 12 Like a Lion Bound, Hear Him Roar: Richard Harvey Cain and a Rhetoric of Reconstruction Martin A. Parlett Chapter 13 Robert Smalls and the Politics of Race and Freedom in Low Country South Carolina, 1865-1890 Karen Cook Bell and Peter J. Breaux About the Editor and Contributors Index