Alrutheus Ambush Taylor

Alrutheus Ambush Taylor (1893–1954) was a historian from Washington D.C. He was a specialist in the history of blacks and segregation, especially during the Reconstruction Era.[1] The Crisis cited him as a "painstaking scholar and authority on Negro history".[2] An African-American, he taught at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute in West Virginia, and at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Following a grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund, Taylor began researching the role of African Americans in the South during Reconstruction.[3] He authored The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction in 1924, The Negro in the Reconstruction of Virginia in 1926, and The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880 in 1941.[4]

References
  1. Woods, James Pleasant (1969). Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, 1893-1954: segregated historian of Reconstruction. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  2. Clifton H. Johnson (November 1971). "Cardoso". The Crisis: 304. ISSN 0011-1422. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  3. James W. Ivy (July 1941). "Reconstruction in Tenessee". The Crisis: 235. ISSN 0011-1422. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  4. "Taylor, Alrutheus Ambush (1893-1955)". Blackpast.org. 12 February 2007. Retrieved 28 August 2012.


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