Alrutheus Ambush Taylor
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor (1893–1954) was an African-American historian from Washington D.C..
He was a specialist in the history of blacks and segregation, especially during the Reconstruction Era.[1] The Crisis cited him as a "painstaking scholar and authority on Negro history".[2] A teacher at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama and at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute in West Virginia, following a grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund, Taylor began heavily researching the role of African Americans in the South during Reconstruction.[3] He authored The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction, The Negro in the Reconstruction of Virginia and The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880 in 1941.[4]
References
- ^ Woods, James Pleasant (1969). Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, 1893-1954: segregated historian of Reconstruction. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. (November 1971). The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. p. 304. ISSN 0011-1422. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. (July 1941). The Crisis. The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc. p. 235. ISSN 0011-1422. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
- ^ "Taylor, Alrutheus Ambush (1893-1955)". Blackpast.org. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
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