![]() ![]() The Murrays’ social circles included some of the first African-American U.S. ![]() Appointed Assistant Librarian at the Library of Congress-at a time when government appointments were the most prestigious positions available for blacks-Murray became wealthy through his business as a construction contractor and married a college-educated socialite. In the wake of the Civil War, Daniel Murray, born free and educated in Baltimore, was in the vanguard of Washington, D.C.’s black upper class. ![]() In this outstanding cultural biography, The Original Black Elite, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era-embodied in the experiences of an influential figure of the time, academic, entrepreneur, and political activist and black history pioneer Daniel Murray. ![]()
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