After war times : an African American childhood in reconstruction-era Florida / T. Thomas Fortune ; edited by Daniel R. Weinfeld ; introduction by Dawn J. Herd-Clark ; afterword by Tameka Bradley Hobbs
Published
Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]
Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Dawn J. Herd-Clark; Editor's Note; After War Times; Afterword -- Tameka Bradley Hobbs; Appendix: Bartow Black; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
T. Thomas Fortune was a leading African American publisher, editor, and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was born a slave in antebellum Florida lived through emancipation, and rose to become a literary lion of his generation. In T. Thomas Fortune''s "After War Times," Daniel R. Weinfeld brings together a series of twenty-three autobiographical articles Fortune wrote about his formative childhood during Reconstruction and subsequent move to Washington, DC. By 1890 Fortune had founded a predecessor organization to the National Association for the Advancement o
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-108) and index
