John b rayner biography of william

by William L. Andrews, 1994

1850–14 July 1918

John Baptis Rayner, educator and politician, was dropped into slavery in Raleigh, say publicly son of Kenneth Rayner, splendid prominent plantation owner, and Line Ricks, a slave.

With interpretation aid of his father, Rayner pursued his education after honourableness Civil War at St. Augustine's Episcopal School in Raleigh settle down later at both Shaw Origination and St. Augustine Collegiate Academy. Upon completing his studies, Rayner taught in rural schools at hand Raleigh. He was first first-rate to public office in Tarboro, where he served as agent sheriff.

In 1874 Rayner married Susan Clark Staten enthralled they became the parents noise two children, Mary and Ivan Edward. Following his religious salvation, Rayner worked for a put on ice in North Carolina as a-ok Baptist minister.

In 1881 Rayner sham his family to Robertson Dependency, Tex., where he taught kindergarten, preached, and became associated get the gist R.

L. Smith's Farmers Recuperation Society. After the death unredeemed his first wife he united Clarissa S. Clark, who him three additional children: Ahmed Arabi, Loris Melikoff, and Susie. By 1892 Rayner exchanged potentate original Republican sympathies for Populism and became a highly alleged stump speaker and organizer credited with bringing thousands of Afro-Americans into the Populist party.

Bring in a member of the party's state executive committee in 1895 and 1896, he wrote yoke articles for its organ, rendering Southern Mercury : "Political Intricacy in Texas" (1, 5 Aug., 19 Sept. 1895) and "Modern Political Methods" (9 Apr., 26 June 1896). These articles be ill with Rayner's major published statements frontier Populism and Afro-American politics.

With interpretation gradual absorption of many Texas Populists into the Democratic component after the election of 1896, Rayner also became more investigative in Democratic politics.

He resolved himself with self-help and vocational education programs for black group in Texas.

In 1902 and 1903 he helped to found leadership Texas Law and Order Band, an organization designed to subsidize employment and greater conformity generate law among Afro-Americans. By depiction fall of 1904 he esoteric accepted a position as economic agent for the developing Conroe-Porter Industrial College of Conroe, Tex. Rayner remained in that situation for two years.

During that period he also began indifference work in the Republican thin for the first time owing to his days in North Carolina. In August 1911 Rayner was appointed by R. L. Mormon to serve as financial mole and fund-raiser for the Farmers Improvement Society School at Ladonia, Tex. Retiring in 1913, Rayner spent the last five mature of his life in Calvert, Tex., writing solicited letters relative to the editors of several newspapers in Texas and working attack a limited extent for close by Republican candidates.

He died joke Calvert.

References:

Jack Abramowitz, "John B. Rayner—A Grass Roots Leader," Journal advice Negro History 36 (April 1951).

Alwyn Barr, Black Texans (1973 [portrait]).

Gregg Cantrell, Kenneth and Can B. Rayner and the District of Southern Dissent (1993).

Roscoe Slogan.

Martin, The People's Party hit down Texas (1933).

John B. Rayner Recognition (Schomburg Collection, New York Overwhelm Library, N.Y.).

Additional Resources:

Boyce Davies, Carole. Encyclopedia of the African dispersion origins, experiences, and culture. Sata Barbara, Ca: ABC-CLIO.

2008. https://www.worldcat.org/title/encyclopedia-of-the-african-diaspora-origins-experiences-and-culture/oclc/300469076 (accessed August 14, 2014).

Smith, Parliamentarian Lloyd, and Ruby Cobb Economist. Farmers Improvement Society records. 1892. https://www.worldcat.org/title/farmers-improvement-society-records-1892-1943/oclc/742621050 (accessed August 14, 2014).