{"id":48692,"date":"2016-08-16T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48692"},"modified":"2016-12-27T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:34:34","slug":"the-senator-and-the-socialite-the-true-story-of-americas-first-black-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48692","title":{"rendered":"The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America&#8217;s First Black Dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780060985134\/the-senator-and-the-socialite\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America&#8217;s First Black Dynasty<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\" target=\"_blank\">HarperCollins<\/a><br \/>\n2006-06-27<br \/>\n512 pages<br \/>\n5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.821 in (d)<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0060184124<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780060985134<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 9780061873911<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lawrence_Otis_Graham\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lawrence Otis Graham<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780060985134\/the-senator-and-the-socialite\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.harperapps.com\/covers\/9780060985134\/y648.png\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blanche_Bruce\" target=\"_blank\">Blanche Kelso Bruce<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Senate<\/a>. He married Josephine Willson\u2014the daughter of a wealthy black <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> doctor\u2014and together they broke down racial barriers in 1880s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\">Washington, D.C.<\/a>, numbering <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ulysses_S._Grant\" target=\"_blank\">President Ulysses S. Grant<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on Senate records, historical documents, and personal letters, author Lawrence Otis Graham weaves a riveting social history that offers a fascinating look at race, politics, and class in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America&#8217;s First Black Dynasty HarperCollins 2006-06-27 512 pages 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.821 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 978-0060184124 Paperback ISBN: 9780060985134 eBook ISBN: 9780061873911 Lawrence Otis Graham Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841, yet, remarkably, amassed a real-estate fortune [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,26,20],"tags":[12698,24762,680,24765,24763,24764,584],"class_list":["post-48692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-blanche-bruce","tag-blanche-kelso-bruce","tag-harpercollins","tag-josephine-beal-willson","tag-josephine-willson","tag-josephine-willson-bruce","tag-lawrence-otis-graham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48694,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48692\/revisions\/48694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}