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Booker T. Washington in perspective : essays of Louis R. Harlan / edited by Raymond W. Smock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harlan, Louis R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Educators--United States--Biography.
- Educators.
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
- Washington, Booker T.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-45506-4
- 9786613455062
- 1-60473-598-8
- OCLC:
- 608973728
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