Lafayette Tharpe was an officer in the volunteer army during the Spanish American War, a longshoreman,[1] and a political organizer and civil rights activist in Louisiana.[2][3][4][5] He organized a boycott of a cotton shipper that refused to hire union members who were African American.[6]
He was promoted to Lieutenant[7] and served during the Spanish American War.[1][8] He helped Colonel C. J. Crane raise the 9th Regiment United States Volunteer Infantry.[9] He put his children in the custody of religious officials while serving.[1] He received a pension for an infirmity received during his service.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b c Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery. Harvard University Press. 30 June 2009. ISBN 9780674043398.
- ^ Cooperatives in New Orleans: Collective Action and Urban Development. Univ. Press of Mississippi. 4 June 2020. ISBN 9781496827609.
- ^ "United States Congressional Serial Set". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ^ Arnesen, Eric (February 1, 1994). Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252063770 – via Google Books.
- ^ "from on August 12, 1903 · Page 4". Newspapers.com. 12 August 1903.
- ^ Gessler, Anne (June 4, 2020). Cooperatives in New Orleans: Collective Action and Urban Development. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496827609 – via Google Books.
- ^ Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America. order of the Senate of the United States. 1909.
- ^ Grados de Libertad: Cuba y Luisiana Después de la Esclavitud. Editorial de Ciencias Sociales. 2006. ISBN 9789590608674.
- ^ The Spanish-American War Volunteer: Ninth United States Volunteer Infantry Roster and Muster, Biographies, Cuban Sketches. The Author. 1899.
- ^ Historia social. Centro de la UNED Alzira-Valencia, Instituto de Historia Social. 1988.