LEADER 03995oam 22005894a 450 001 9910164955703321 005 20210113113711.0 010 $a0-252-09922-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000001060739 035 $a(OCoLC)959667277 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57015 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4806667 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001060739 100 $a20160927d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBooker T. Washington in American Memory /$fKenneth M. Hamilton 205 $aSecond edition. 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$d[2017] 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm.) 225 0 $aThe new Black studies series 311 $a0-252-08228-1 311 $a0-252-04077-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"A great man fallen": the immediate death notices -- A symbol of America : obituaries and other published memorials -- "Taps" : the funeral in Tuskegee -- "A debt of gratitude" : tributes across the nation -- "Sermon tonight on Booker T. Washington" : months of commemorations and eulogies -- Gone but not forgotten : eulogies and the sanctification of Washington -- Epilogue. 330 $a"This project examines the response to Booker T. Washington's death, analyzing the many ways in which both black and white Americans involved in the Yankee Protestant Ethic Movement honored or memorialized the great visionary. The northern-based Movement originally saw southerners as a people who embraced a profane ethic, one that undermined the glory of the nation. In order to shift southerners away from their lazy, inefficient, and uneducated ways, the Movement engaged them in a culture war that employed multiple educational and evangelical agencies. When white southerners resisted such interference, the Movement began concentrating more exclusively on black southerners. Washington became an advocate for the Movement, and in turn the Movement became a cornerstone of Washington's ideology. After Washington's death, leading supporters of the Movement wanted to perpetuate his vision. They used obituaries, burial rites, memorials, and eulogies as weapons of choice in their efforts to continue a culture war between a supposedly democratic North and a seemingly aristocratic South. Hamilton reexamines Washington's influences, thereby producing a new understanding of his life. Integrating an analysis of letters of solace, obituaries, and other archival documents, Hamilton examines the ways that the memory of Washington and his works were cultivated and utilized by his contemporaries to promote racial consciousness. By closely working with the documents that reflect the memory and admiration of Washington at the time of his death, Hamilton is also able to show how recollections of Washington have shifted or become obscured by more recent historical assumptions or interpretations."--Provided by publisher. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aCivil rights movements$xUnited States$xHistory 606 $aProtestant work ethic 606 $aCollective memory$zUnited States 606 $aCulture conflict$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEulogies$zUnited States 607 $aNortheastern States$xMoral conditions 607 $aSouthern States$xMoral conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xUnited States$xHistory. 615 0$aProtestant work ethic. 615 0$aCollective memory 615 0$aCulture conflict$xHistory 615 0$aEulogies 676 $a370.92 700 $aHamilton$b Kenneth Marvin$f1947-$01249493 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910164955703321 996 $aBooker T. Washington in American Memory$92895560 997 $aUNINA