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Presents a brief look at the life of Booker T. Washington ... Read more

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Booker T. Washington Educator And Interracial Interpreter by Basil Mathews ... Read more

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Analyzes and documents the public life of Margaret Murray Washington (1865-1925). She was a noted educator, progressive era reformer and clubwoman. This collection of primary documents examines Margaret Washington's role as first lady of Tuskegee Institute, family data, and her club work at the national, international and state levels. Documents representing the clubs' structure, struggles and success are include, as is a timeline on her life. The book contains a collection of letters to and from Margaret Murray Washington, which provide a more intimate look at this dynamic leader who helped to transform the rural black south. ... Read more

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Booker T. Washington has long held an ambiguous position in the pantheon of black leadership. Lauded by some in his own lifetime as a black George Washington, he was also derided by others as a Benedict Arnold. InThe Education of Booker T. Washington, Michael West offers a major reinterpretation of one of the most complex and controversial figures in American history. West reveals the personal and political dimensions of Washington's journey "up from slavery." He explains why Washington's ideas resonated so strongly in the post-Reconstruction era and considers their often negative influence in the continuing struggle for equality in the United States. West's work also establishes a groundwork for understanding the ideological origins of the civil rights movement and discusses Washington's views on the fate of race and nation in light of those of Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and others.

West argues that Washington's analysis was seen as offering a "solution" to the problem of racial oppression in a nation professing its belief in democracy. That solution was the idea of "race relations." In practice, this theory buttressed segregation by supposing that African Americans could prosper within Jim Crow's walls and without the normal levers by which other Americans pursued their interests. Washington did not, West contends, imagine a way to perfect democracy and an end to the segregationist policies of southern states. Instead, he offered an ideology that would obscure the injustices of segregation and preserve some measure of racial peace.

White Americans, by embracing Washington's views, could comfortably find a way out of the moral and political contradictions raised by the existence of segregation in a supposedly democratic society. This was (and is) Washington's legacy: a form of analysis, at once obvious and concealed, that continues to prohibit the realization of a truly democratic politics.

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Booker T. Washington embraced photography as the artistic medium to represent himself and Tuskegee Institute because it was economical, technical, utilitarian, and aesthetic: an apt form for a man who preached a gospel of thrift, industry, self-sufficiency, and beauty. Advancements in photography at the end of the nineteenth century allowed Washington to be simultaneously better known and more elusive—an international celebrity with a multitude of identities.This book examines how initially, Washington cultivated a picture of Victorian grace to appeal to elite white America’s policy of gradual reform, and images of the economic and cultural results of Tuskegee’s industrial curriculum became publicity photographs. But in the last decade of his life, he shed the passivity he had presented to the white world, speaking directly to black audiences through the cameras of black photographers, and challenging racist popular culture by visually demonstrating social and cultural equality.Washington should be credited with not only launching the careers of several black photographers but also with establishing the early aesthetic of the New Negro. From 1895-1915, Washington was the central figure in African-American culture, supporting black artists telling black stories in the contemporary Victorian aesthetic, and showing how blacks could equal whites artistically and culturally ... Read more

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An analysis of the ideas of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, and other black leaders from the turn of the century.
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The chance or destiny which brought to this land of ours, and placed in the midst of the most progressive and the most enlightened race that Christian civilization has produced, some three or four millions of primitive black people from Africa and their descendants, has created one of the most interesting and difficult social problems which any modern people has had to face. The effort to solve this problem has put to a crucial test the fundamental principles of our political life and the most widely accepted tenets of our Christian faith. Frederick Douglass's career falls almost wholly within the first period of the struggle in which this problem has involved the people of this country, the period of revolution and liberation. That period is now closed. We are at present in the period of construction and readjustment. ... Read more

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Aims to put in more definite and permanent form the ideas regarding the negro and his future which the author expressed many times on the public platform and through the press and magazines.

THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Books for College Libraries; Harvard Guide to American History. ... Read more

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A VERY WELL DONE ESSAY
This well done essay from Washington is a bit of a summation of Mr. Washington's many speeches and an accumulation of various articles he wrote through his life time.This work, like most, must be viewed from a historical perspective, i.e. Washington was a product of his times.Agree or disagree with his observatons and recommendations, this is still a great work and wonderful research too.If you can find a copy, buy it and hang on to it...the older the better.If nothing else, it is a good investment.Recommend this one highly. ... Read more

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Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama, led to a boycott of public buses in 1955 that lasted 381 days! Read about the impactand contributions made by each of these leaders, innovators, and pioneers. ... Read more

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Booker T. Washington
This is a good book for anyone looking for basic information on Booker T. Washington.The photos are well done, and the text is easy reading for early grade readers.While giving a good summary of Washington's life,including his childhood, this book does not go into the importance of manyof his actions such as his speech in Atlanta (the Atlanta Compromise). ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. ... Read more

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Booker T. Washington was an American educator, author, orator and political leader. Born into slavery to a white father and slave mother Washington representative of the last generation of black leaders born in slavery. After emancipation, he worked in a variety of manual labor jobs making his way to Hampton Roads education. He worked his way through Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and attended college at Wayland Seminary. After returning to Hampton as a teacher, in 1881 he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.Building Character is a collection ofthirty-seven addresses Washington gave before students, faculty, and guests at the Tuskegee Institute. These addresses include timeless advice on subjects such as; Helping Others, The Virtue of Simplicity, Keeping Your Word, Getting Down To Mother Earth, The Cultivation of Stable Habits, and more.In 1896 Washington was granted an honorary master's degree from Harvard University for his contributions to American society. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College in 1901.In 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt invited Washington to the White House making him the first African-American ever invited as a guest. At the end of the 2008 presidential election Senator John McCain, referred to Washington's visit a century earlier as the seed that blossomed into the first African American becoming the President of the United States. ... Read more

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As far as Washington was concerned, slavery only made the black race stronger. His argument that both whites and blacks would benefit from “educating Negroes” in a vocation was criticized for favoring accommodation. This autobiography of a slave’s rise to distinction conveys that a strong work ethic and true excellence in whatever one is doing will be rewarded no matter what race or what position a person holds in life. Up from Slavery also provides an insider’s look at the foundation of the Tuskegee Institute.

Born a slave on a small farm in the Virginia backcountry, Booker T. Washington never knew his father, who he heard was a white man. His mother, a cook on the plantation, suffered many hardships along with her family. After slavery ended, he moved with his family to West Virginia and went to work in the salt furnaces and coal mines. After completing secondary education at Hampton Institute, he accepted a teaching position. Education and teaching became his career goal; in 1881, he founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. In 1895 he secured his influence by delivering The Atlanta Compromise Address before the Cotton States Exposition, and went on to found the National Negro Business League and become chief black advisor to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more