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. ''The Crisis'' cited him as a "painstaking scholar and authority on Negro history". 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. 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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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. ''The Crisis'' cited him as a "painstaking scholar and authority on Negro history". 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. 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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