Booker T Washington
To what extent did Booker T. Washington offer a strategy for blacks to combat racial inequality?
, seen trh , compared to other activist leaders, however
was first endorsed by Booker
spire to be something and combating the biggest racial boundary much racial equality as in
which is combating racial inequality at the I would regard ‘the age of washington’ not so much as a celebration and his indirect combating of the major racial inequalities of the time, I belive Booker T Washington deserves some credit for his tactical manuvering of certain social injustices. the man himself, however a better appreciation for him in reflection of the times, and how he was shaped by these strong white racial forces.
of the good he accothere was
|Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later |
|Jeremy Wells. Southern Quarterly. Hattiesburg: Summer 2006. Vol. 43, Iss. 4; pg. 190, 3 pgs |
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Wells reviews Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. » Jump to indexing (document details)
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Copyright Southern Quarterly Summer 2006
Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 256 pp. Cloth: $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2674-1).
As Waldo Martin reminds us in the essay he contributes to Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up from Slavery 100 Years Later, the period 1895-1915 was once widely thought of as "the Age of Washington." The term itself was coined by historian August Meier in 1963, but the view it encapsulates - that Washington was by far the most important black public figure of the turn of the century - had characterized most earlier assessments of African-American history. Washington began to achieve this recognition by 1901, the year
, seen trh , compared to other activist leaders, however
was first endorsed by Booker
spire to be something and combating the biggest racial boundary much racial equality as in
which is combating racial inequality at the I would regard ‘the age of washington’ not so much as a celebration and his indirect combating of the major racial inequalities of the time, I belive Booker T Washington deserves some credit for his tactical manuvering of certain social injustices. the man himself, however a better appreciation for him in reflection of the times, and how he was shaped by these strong white racial forces.
of the good he accothere was
|Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later |
|Jeremy Wells. Southern Quarterly. Hattiesburg: Summer 2006. Vol. 43, Iss. 4; pg. 190, 3 pgs |
Abstract (Summary)
Wells reviews Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. » Jump to indexing (document details)
Full Text (1257 words)
Copyright Southern Quarterly Summer 2006
Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 256 pp. Cloth: $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2674-1).
As Waldo Martin reminds us in the essay he contributes to Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up from Slavery 100 Years Later, the period 1895-1915 was once widely thought of as "the Age of Washington." The term itself was coined by historian August Meier in 1963, but the view it encapsulates - that Washington was by far the most important black public figure of the turn of the century - had characterized most earlier assessments of African-American history. Washington began to achieve this recognition by 1901, the year