Booker T. Washington in Perspective : Essays of Louis R. Harlan /

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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 pre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harlan, Louis R. (Author)
Other Authors: Smock, Raymond (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915.
Educators.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
EDUCATION > Higher.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.
Educators > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations
ISBN:9781604735987

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