The Senator and the Socialite
The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty
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ISBN-13:
9780060985134
Veröffentl:
2007
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.07.2007
Seiten:
512
Autor:
Lawrence Otis Graham
Gewicht:
405 g
Format:
202x135x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841, yet, remarkably, amassed a real-estate fortune and became the first black man to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. He married Josephine Willson?the daughter of a wealthy black Philadelphia doctor?and together they broke down racial barriers in 1880s Washington, D.C., numbering President Ulysses S. Grant among their influential friends. The Bruce family achieved a level of wealth and power unheard of for people of color in nineteenth-century America. Yet later generations would stray from the proud Bruce legacy, stumbling into scandal and tragedy.
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