04248nam 2200685Ia 450 991081608290332120200520144314.01-283-28242-997866132824221-60473-330-6(CKB)1000000000721956(EBL)776543(OCoLC)317403670(SSID)ssj0000235850(PQKBManifestationID)11176292(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235850(PQKBWorkID)10165190(PQKB)10920733(OCoLC)763161339(MdBmJHUP)muse31253(StDuBDS)EDZ0002387886(Au-PeEL)EBL776543(CaPaEBR)ebr10508861(MiAaPQ)EBC776543(EXLCZ)99100000000072195620710310e20081970 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReminiscences of an active life[electronic resource] the autobiography of John Roy Lynch /Edited and with an introduction by John Hope FranklinJackson University Press of Mississippi20081 online resource (564 p.)Negro American biographies and autobiographiesOriginally published: University of Chicago Press, 1970.1-4968-3362-7 1-60473-114-1 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1 His Father's Keeping; 2 Into Bondage Again; 3 The War Came; 4 Confederate Looting; 5 Looking for Employment; 6 In the Photography Business; 7 A Constitution for Mississippi; 8 Justice of the Peace; 9 1869: State Elections and Reorganization; 10 Electing a Legislature; 11 Financing State Reconstruction; 12 Speaker of the House Lynch; 13 1872: Election to Congress; 14 Visit to Saint Louis; 15 1873: Mississippi Senatorial Elections; 16 Governors Alcorn and Ames; 17 The Colored Vote: Mississippi; 18 The Colored Vote: The South19 1874: Diminishing Republican Power20 1875: Gloomy Prospects for Reelection; 21 1875: Conversation with the President; 22 1875: Democratic Victory; 23 The Disputed Presidency; 24 1880: Garfield, the Compromise Candidate; 25 1880: The Battle for Reelection; 26 The Vicksburg Postmastership; 27 The Garfield Years; 28 1881: Republican and Greenback Alliance; 29 1882: Party and Election Disputes; 30 1884: Presidential Nominations; 31 1885: The Failure of J. R. Chalmers; 32 Marriage and Divorce; 33 The Cleveland Years: Interracial Marriages; 34 The Harrison Years35 Republican Factionalism and the Problem of Disenfranchisement36 Cleveland's Reelection; 37 Law Firm of Terrell and Lynch; 38 1896: The McKinley Campaign; 39 Contest for Mississippi Delegates; 40 Fighting the Hill Organization; 41 McKinley Appointments: The Postal Service; 42 McKinley Appointments: Army Paymaster Lynch; 43 Keeping in Politics; 44 Controversial Convention Procedures; 45 In Cuba; 46 In Nebraska; 47 In Puerto Rico and San Francisco; 48 In Hawaii and the Philippines; 49 Retirement and Remarriage; 50 Democrats in the South: The Race Question; INDEXBorn into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, John Roy Lynch (1847-1939) came to adulthood during the Reconstruction Era and lived a public-spirited life for over three decades. His autobiography, 'Reminiscences of an Active Life', reflects Lynch's thoughtful and nuanced understanding of the past and of his own experience.Negro American biographies and autobiographies.Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)African American politiciansMississippiBiographyUnited StatesPolitics and government1865-1900MississippiPolitics and government1865-1950Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)African American politicians973.8/0924973.80924Lynch John Roy1847-1939.1604468MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816082903321Reminiscences of an active life3929323UNINA