Booker T. Washington in American Memory /

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"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 peo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamilton, Kenneth Marvin, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915.
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915 > Death & burial.
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915 > Influence.
Protestant work ethic.
Moral conditions.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Eulogies.
Culture conflict.
Collective memory.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
EDUCATION > Reference.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Essays.
1900 - 1999.
Noirs americains > Vie intellectuelle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Éthique du travail protestante.
Memoire collective > États-Unis.
Conflit culturel > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Éloges > États-Unis.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
Collective memory > United States.
Culture conflict > United States > History > 20th century.
Eulogies > United States.
United States.
Southern States.
Northeastern States.
États-Unis (Nord-Est) > Conditions morales.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions morales.
Northeastern States > Moral conditions.
Southern States > Moral conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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