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- catalog abstract ""Best known for his crusade against lynching in the 1880s, John Mitchell Jr. was also involved in a number of civil rights crusades that seem more contemporary to the 1950s and 1960s than the turn of that century. He led a boycott against segregated streetcars in 1904 and fought residential segregation in Richmond in 1911. His political career included eight years on the Richmond city council, which ended with disenfranchisement in 1896." "As Jim Crow strengthened its hold on the South, Mitchell, like many African American leaders, turned to creating strong financial institutions within the black community. He became a bank president and urged Planet readers to comport themselves as gentlemen, but a year after he ran for governor in 1921, Mitchell's fortunes suffered a drastic reversal. His bank failed, and he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary. The conviction was overturned on technicalities, but the so-called reforms that allowed state regulation of black businesses had done their worst, and Mitchell died in poverty and some disgrace." "Basing her portrait on thorough primary research conducted over several decades, Ann Field Alexander brings Mitchell to life in all his complexity and contradiction, a combative, resilient figure of protest and accomodation who epitomizes the African American experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12639027.
- catalog coverage "Richmond (Va.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Richmond (Va.) Race relations.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""As Jim Crow strengthened its hold on the South, Mitchell, like many African American leaders, turned to creating strong financial institutions within the black community. He became a bank president and urged Planet readers to comport themselves as gentlemen, but a year after he ran for governor in 1921, Mitchell's fortunes suffered a drastic reversal. His bank failed, and he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary. The conviction was overturned on technicalities, but the so-called reforms that allowed state regulation of black businesses had done their worst, and Mitchell died in poverty and some disgrace."".
- catalog description ""Basing her portrait on thorough primary research conducted over several decades, Ann Field Alexander brings Mitchell to life in all his complexity and contradiction, a combative, resilient figure of protest and accomodation who epitomizes the African American experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Best known for his crusade against lynching in the 1880s, John Mitchell Jr. was also involved in a number of civil rights crusades that seem more contemporary to the 1950s and 1960s than the turn of that century. He led a boycott against segregated streetcars in 1904 and fought residential segregation in Richmond in 1911. His political career included eight years on the Richmond city council, which ended with disenfranchisement in 1896."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-248) and index.".
- catalog description "The making of a "colored gentleman" -- "Colored teachers for colored schools" -- Founding the Planet -- "Lynch law must go!" -- A manly protest -- The politics of Jackson Ward -- "No officers, no fight!" -- Disfranchisement -- "Did God call the pastor?" -- Jim Crow and race pride -- The lure of fraternalism -- "A sane and sensible businessman" -- The perils of prosperity -- Collapse -- Epilogue.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 258 p., [10] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0813921163 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,".
- catalog spatial "Richmond (Va.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Richmond (Va.) Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Virginia Richmond".
- catalog subject "975.5/45100496073/0092 B 21".
- catalog subject "African American newspapers Virginia Richmond History.".
- catalog subject "African American political activists Biography.".
- catalog subject "African American politicians Virginia Richmond Biography.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Biography.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Virginia Richmond History.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights movements Virginia Richmond History.".
- catalog subject "E185.97.M64 A44 2002".
- catalog subject "Mitchell, John, 1863-1929.".
- catalog subject "Newspaper editors Virginia Richmond Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The making of a "colored gentleman" -- "Colored teachers for colored schools" -- Founding the Planet -- "Lynch law must go!" -- A manly protest -- The politics of Jackson Ward -- "No officers, no fight!" -- Disfranchisement -- "Did God call the pastor?" -- Jim Crow and race pride -- The lure of fraternalism -- "A sane and sensible businessman" -- The perils of prosperity -- Collapse -- Epilogue.".
- catalog title "Race Man : the rise and fall of the "fighting editor," John Mitchell, Jr. / Ann Field Alexander.".
- catalog type "Biographie. swd".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".