Review of A Free Man of Color and His Hotel: Race, Reconstruction, and the Role of the Federal Government, Plus A Rant

The Wormley Hotel is one that never got enough attention…

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     Forgot to mention in the update: that is a photo of his Hotel, in the new Featured Image.  This might become more of a rant, but I doubt it.  This book needs more circulation, and Black History needs more attention.  See the book review first (for which I just found my reading notes in my old Research notebook, and have updated the post, May, 2023…):

A Free Man of Color and His Hotel: Race, Reconstruction, and the Role of the Federal Government by Carol Gelderman 

     Here is yet another important book on Black History in DC that I read in 2010, but neglected to review, in the rush to leave DC, and then finish editing Stayed on Freedom’s Call (linked to below, in the .sig…). Gelderman’s book (of which I seem to recall confusing at first with another book carrying a title like ‘The Wormley Hotel’…

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