A supplement to that accepted history is Eric Yellin's Racism in the Nation's Service, which I also excerpt in my administrative law class. (We haven't gotten there yet.) Yellin helpfully surfaces the relationship btw patronage & the legacy of Reconstruction. 2/3 uncpress.org/978146962838...
Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government...
