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Alrutheus Ambush Taylor[edit]

Alrutheus Ambush Taylor (November 22, 1891 – June 4, 1954) was an African-American historian, professor, and dean at Fisk University.[1] During his career, Taylor performed foundational work on the role of African Americans in the Reconstruction period, especially in the states of South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. His work influenced many later historians, including W.E.B. Du Bois,[2] and offered the first significant challenges to the Dunning School of Reconstruction History.[3]

Early life and education[edit]

Taylor was born on November 22, 1893 to Lewis and Lucy (Johnson) Taylor[3] in the Washington DC, neighborhood of Anacostia. The youngest of nine children, his early childhood was one of poverty, spanning the years of the Panic of 1893 depression. As a child, he attended segregated public schools, the James A. Garfield Grammar School, and from 1906-1910, the Armstrong Manual Training School, a vocational high school. At Armstrong, Taylor excelled in Mathematics and was awarded a scholarship to the University of Michigan.[2]

Taylor majored in Mathematics but his passion was for History. He completed nearly as much coursework in History as in his major field of study. As an undergraduate, he was active in Alpha Phi Alpha, one of the earliest black fraternities.[2] From 1914-1915, Taylor interrupted his studies to teach English at the Tuskegee Institute.[1]Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). After graduation, Taylor moved to New York City where he was employed as a Social Worker with the National Urban League assisting black migrants from 1917 to 1918.[4]

In 1919, Taylor left the Urban League to take a position as Membership and Social Secretary for the Twelfth Street Young Men's Christian Association in Washington, D.C, under John Warren Davis.[2] When Davis accepted the presidency of West Virginia Collegiate Institute later that year[5] he took Taylor with him. There Taylor was employed as an instructor in Mathematics and Economics, along with his wife Harriet (who accepted a position as a Critic Teacher in the English Department).[2]

The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History[edit]

met and became associated with Carter G. Woodson [3]

Fisk University[edit]

Later life[edit]

Legacy[edit]

Selected bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

Papers[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Mattie McHollin, Fisk University Archives. "A Guide to the A.A. Taylor Collection, 1923-1954, Biographical Note".
  2. ^ a b c d e Stephen B. Gilroy Hall (1996). "Research as Opportunity: Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, Black Intellectualism, and the Remaking of Reconstruction Historiography, 1893-1954". UCLA Historical Journal. pp. 39–60.
  3. ^ a b c John Hope Franklin (July 1954). "Alrutheus Ambush Taylor". The Journal of Negro History. pp. 240–242.
  4. ^ Jacqueline Goggin (2005). "Taylor, Alrutheus A(mbush)". In Kwame Appiah Anthony & Henry Louis Gates (ed.). Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Oxford University Press. pp. 131–132. ISBN 978-0195170559.
  5. ^ Ancella R. Bickley. "John Warren Davis; e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia".
  6. ^ A.N. Marquis Co. "The Monthly Supplement, a Current Biographical Reference Service".
  7. ^ bookmaps.org, Wolfram Schneider. "Library Online Catalog".
  8. ^ Amistad Research Center. "Taylor, Alrutheus Ambush manuscript, 1952".
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