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

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. '' The Crisis'' cited him as a "painstaking scholar and authority on Negro history". An African-American, he taught at

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in Tuskegee, Alabama, at the

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in West Virginia, and at

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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. 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.

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