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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959793703321

Autore

Harlan Louis R

Titolo

Booker T. Washington in perspective : essays of Louis R. Harlan / / edited by Raymond W. Smock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c1988

ISBN

1-283-45506-4

9786613455062

1-60473-598-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SmockRaymond W

Disciplina

378/.111

B

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights

African Americans

Educators - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Booker T. Washington in Biographical Perspective; Booker T. Washington's West Virginia Boyhood; Booker T. Washington and the Kanawha Valley, 1875-1879; Booker T. Washington and the White Man's Burden; Booker T. Washington and the National Negro Business League; The Secret Life of Booker T. Washington; Booker T. Washington and the Voice of the Negro, 1904-1907; Booker T. Washington's Discovery of Jews; Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Accommodation; The Booker T. Washington Papers; Sympathy and Detachment: Dilemmas of a Biographer

Booker T. Washington: The Labyrinth and the ThreadIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This book, an important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington, makes available for the first time in one collection Harlan's essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader.Written over a span of a quarter of a century, they present a remarkably rich and complex look at Washington, the educator and leading precursor of the Civil Rights Movement who rose



from slavery to be the dominant force in black America at the opening of the twentieth century.Harlan's mastery of biography is revealed in essays printed here exploring the nature of