Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman
Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman
Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman
Description
Description
A long overdue account of the pioneering life and work of controversial African American Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell of Chicago
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"This biography of Mitchell, who has been virtually forgotten by history, is essential reading for scholars to understand the early days of the modern civil rights struggle. ESSENTIAL"
--CHOICE
"A Carpetbagger in Reverse makes a great addition to the growing scholarship of the Black freedom struggle during the Great Depression."
--The Alabama Review
" [The book] resurrects the life and career of a long-lost twentieth-century political and civil rights leader. It also brings to light a native Alabamian scarcely known to most people today."
--Alabama Writers Forum
"A Carpetbagger in Reverse offers an engaging and well-written account of the life of Arthur Wergs Mitchell. . . . Knapp's study offers a corrective account of Mitchell's life and work that seeks to acknowledge this path-breaking Black politician's many talents and accomplishments without ignoring his faults."
--Mia Bay is author of the Bancroft Prize winning book Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
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Publishing Information
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