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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I THE REPUBLICAN ERA, 1867–1912 One No South to Us: African American Federal Employees in Republican Washington 11 Two The Spoils: Politics and Black Mobility 39 Three The Sensibilities of the People: Black Politics in Crisis 61 Part II A NEW RACIAL REGIME, 1913–1917 Four Democratic Fair Play: The Wilson Administration in Republican Washington 81 Five Wilsonian Praxis: Racial Discrimination in a Progressive Administration 113 Six Resistance and Friction: Challenging and Justifying Wilsonian Praxis 132 Part III REPUBLICANS IN THE NEW REGIME, 1918–1929 Seven Creating Normalcy: Washington after Wilson 175 Epilogue 204 Notes 207 Bibliography 263 Index 291 Illustrations Swan Kendrick, circa 1909, and Ruby Moyse, circa 1915 14 Law Library, Howard University 18 Collage of photographs of African American civil servants assembled by W. E. B. Du Bois for the Paris Exposition of 1900 25 Employee record of Philip Shippen 31 Judson Lyons, circa 1908 42 Illustration of Grover Cleveland and Republican “spoilsmen,” 1884 45 Office of the Washington Bee, circa 1899 49 Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute, circa 1902 56 Laura E. Joiner, circa 1920s 59 William Monroe Trotter 68 Woodrow Wilson, August 1912 73 National Democratic Fair Play Association meeting notice, June 1914 96 Woodrow Wilson and his cabinet, April 1913 100 “Women’s Work in the Treasury,” circa 1900 101 Metropolitan AME Church, circa 1899 151 Archibald Grimké, circa 1919 154 “The New Freedom—For the Negro,” November 1914 167 Tuskegee principal Robert Russa Moton, May 30, 1922 176 Federal employees at a Public Health Service dispensary for government workers, circa 1920 197 Tidal Basin bathing beach, 1922 198 ...

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