John b rayner biography of williams

by William L. Andrews, 1994

1850–14 July 1918

John Baptis Rayner, coach and politician, was born into vassalage in Raleigh, the son of Kenneth Rayner, a prominent plantation owner, endure Mary Ricks, a slave. With justness aid of his father, Rayner hunt his education after the Civil Conflict at St. Augustine's Episcopal School divert Raleigh and later at both Suffragist University and St. Augustine Collegiate Association. Upon completing his studies, Rayner coached in rural schools near Raleigh. Recognized was first elected to public employment in Tarboro, where he served translation deputy sheriff. In 1874 Rayner united Susan Clark Staten and they became the parents of two children, Stock and Ivan Edward. Following his celestial conversion, Rayner worked for a adjourn in North Carolina as a Protestant minister.

In 1881 Rayner moved his kinship to Robertson County, Tex., where smartness taught school, preached, and became proportionate with R. L. Smith's Farmers Boundary Society. After the death of emperor first wife he married Clarissa Unmerciful. Clark, who bore him three addon children: Ahmed Arabi, Loris Melikoff, trip Susie. By 1892 Rayner exchanged government original Republican sympathies for Populism put forward became a highly regarded stump orator and organizer credited with bringing tens of Afro-Americans into the Populist understanding. As a member of the party's state executive committee in 1895 cranium 1896, he wrote two articles on behalf of its organ, the Southern Mercury : "Political Imbroglio in Texas" (1, 5 Aug., 19 Sept. 1895) and "Modern Political Methods" (9 Apr., 26 June 1896). These articles represent Rayner's chief published statements on Populism and Afro-American politics.

With the gradual absorption of assorted Texas Populists into the Democratic crowd after the election of 1896, Rayner also became more active in Classless politics. He identified himself with self-help and vocational education programs for inky people in Texas. In 1902 avoid 1903 he helped to found integrity Texas Law and Order League, tone down organization designed to promote employment build up greater conformity to law among Afro-Americans. By the fall of 1904 noteworthy had accepted a position as pecuniary agent for the developing Conroe-Porter Business College of Conroe, Tex. Rayner remained in that position for two adulthood. During this period he also began to work in the Republican arrange for the first time since fillet days in North Carolina. In Esteemed 1911 Rayner was appointed by Publicity. L. Smith to serve as fiscal agent and fund-raiser for the Farmers Improvement Society School at Ladonia, Tex. Retiring in 1913, Rayner spent class last five years of his poised in Calvert, Tex., writing solicited hand to the editors of several newspapers in Texas and working to excellent limited extent for local Republican lea. He died in Calvert.

References:

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

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

Gregg Cantrell, Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent (1993).

Roscoe C. Martin, The People's Challenging in Texas (1933).

John B. Rayner Annals (Schomburg Collection, New York Public Repository, N.Y.).

Additional Resources:

Boyce Davies, Carole. Encyclopedia of primacy African diaspora 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 Venerable 14, 2014).

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