Feeding the Wolf: John B. Rayner and the Politics of Race, 1850 - 1918 - Gregg Cantrell

While the story of John B. Rayner is not widely known, this African American educator and Populist leader, the son of a politically powerful white slaveholder from North Carolina, was a political maverick who dared to challenge the Democratic Party and the Post-Civil War South's racial orthodoxy. Indeed, John B.