Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920 by Willard B. Gatewood

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920

Black Community Studies

Willard B. Gatewood

464 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Rank within this black upper class rested on...

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