Alrutheus Ambush Taylor

Alrutheus Ambush Taylor (1893–1955) was an African-American historian from Washington D.C.. He was a specialist in the history of blacks and segregation, especially during the Reconstruction. The Crisis cited him as a "painstaking scholar and authority on Negro history". A teacher at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama and at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute in West Virginia, following a grant from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund, Taylor began heavily researching the role of African Americans in the South during Reconstruction. He authored books such as The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction, The Negro in the Reconstruction of Virginia and The Negro in Tennessee, 1865-1880 in 1941.