LEADER 04248nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910782837103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-28242-9 010 $a9786613282422 010 $a1-60473-330-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000721956 035 $a(EBL)776543 035 $a(OCoLC)317403670 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000235850 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11176292 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235850 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10165190 035 $a(PQKB)10920733 035 $a(OCoLC)763161339 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31253 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002387886 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL776543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10508861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC776543 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000721956 100 $a20710310e20081970 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReminiscences of an active life$b[electronic resource] $ethe autobiography of John Roy Lynch /$fEdited and with an introduction by John Hope Franklin 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (564 p.) 225 1 $aNegro American biographies and autobiographies 300 $aOriginally published: University of Chicago Press, 1970. 311 $a1-4968-3362-7 311 $a1-60473-114-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; 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 South 327 $a19 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 Years 327 $a35 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; INDEX 330 8 $aBorn into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, John Roy Lynch (1847-1939) came to adulthood during the Reconstruction Era and lived a public-spirited life for over three decades. His autobiography, 'Reminiscences of an Active Life', reflects Lynch's thoughtful and nuanced understanding of the past and of his own experience. 410 0$aNegro American biographies and autobiographies. 606 $aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 606 $aAfrican American politicians$zMississippi$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1865-1900 607 $aMississippi$xPolitics and government$y1865-1950 615 0$aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 615 0$aAfrican American politicians 676 $a973.8/0924 676 $a973.80924 700 $aLynch$b John Roy$f1847-1939.$01573705 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782837103321 996 $aReminiscences of an active life$93849573 997 $aUNINA