Author: Benjamin Franklin RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington
Author: Benjamin Franklin RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Up from History
Author: Robert Jefferson NorrellPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. In this compelling biography, Norrell reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. He urged black people to acquire economic independence and to develop the moral character that would ultimately gain them full citizenship. Although widely accepted as the most realistic way to integrate blacks into American life during his time, WashingtonÕs strategy has been disparaged since the 1960s. The first full-length biography of Booker T. in a generation, Up from History recreates the broad contexts in which Washington worked: He struggled against white bigots who hated his economic ambitions for blacks, African-American intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois who resented his huge influence, and such inconstant allies as Theodore Roosevelt. Norrell details the positive power of WashingtonÕs vision, one that invoked hope and optimism to overcome past exploitation and present discrimination. Indeed, his ideas have since inspired peoples across the Third World that there are many ways to struggle for equality and justice. Up from History reinstates this extraordinary historical figure to the pantheon of black leaders, illuminating not only his mission and achievement but also, poignantly, the man himself.
Booker T. Washington
Author: Mark ChristianPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
An illuminating historical biography for students and scholars alike, this book gives readers insight into the life and times of Booker T. Washington. Booker T. Washington was an integral figure in mid-19th to early-20th century America who successfully transitioned from a life in slavery and poverty to a position among the Black elite. This book highlights Washington's often overlooked contributions to the African and African American experience, particularly his support of higher education for Black students through fundraising for Fisk and Howard universities, where he served as a trustee. A vocal advocate of vocational and liberal arts alike, Washington eventually founded his own school, the Tuskegee Institute, with a well-rounded curriculum to expand opportunities and encourage free thinking for Black students. While Washington was sometimes viewed as a "great accommodator" by his critics for working alongside wealthy, white elites, he quietly advocated for Black teachers and students as well as for desegregation. This book will offer readers a clearly written, fully realized overview of Booker T. Washington and his legacy.
The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington
Author: Benjamin Franklin RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Booker T. Washington in Perspective
Author: Raymond SmockPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578069286
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
An important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington that collects Harlan's essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader
Atlanta Compromise
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497492707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Atlanta Compromise was an address by African-American leader Booker T. Washington on September 18, 1895. Given to a predominantly White audience at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, the speech has been recognized as one of the most important and influential speeches in American history. The compromise was announced at the Atlanta Exposition Speech. The primary architect of the compromise, on behalf of the African-Americans, was Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute. Supporters of Washington and the Atlanta compromise were termed the "Tuskegee Machine." The agreement was never written down. Essential elements of the agreement were that blacks would not ask for the right to vote, they would not retaliate against racist behavior, they would tolerate segregation and discrimination, that they would receive free basic education, education would be limited to vocational or industrial training (for instance as teachers or nurses), liberal arts education would be prohibited (for instance, college education in the classics, humanities, art, or literature). After the turn of the 20th century, other black leaders, most notably W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter - (a group Du Bois would call The Talented Tenth), took issue with the compromise, instead believing that African-Americans should engage in a struggle for civil rights. W. E. B. Du Bois coined the term "Atlanta Compromise" to denote the agreement. The term "accommodationism" is also used to denote the essence of the Atlanta compromise. After Washington's death in 1915, supporters of the Atlanta compromise gradually shifted their support to civil rights activism, until the modern Civil rights movement commenced in the 1950s. Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community. Washington was of the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants, who were newly oppressed by disfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1895 his Atlanta compromise called for avoiding confrontation over segregation and instead putting more reliance on long-term educational and economic advancement in the black community.
The Story of My Life and Work
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A publisher's dummy used for subscription sales of Washington's autobiography. Selected pages of the text and 37 illustrated plates are included. The front and back cover represent two of the three available bindings for the edition; the spine for the third option is pasted to the inside back cover.
Tuskegee & Its People
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Booker T. Washington
Author: Emma E. HaldyPublisher: Cherry Lake
ISBN: 1634711173
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Booker T. Washington in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a timeline and other informative backmatter.
The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington (Classic Reprint)
Author: B. F. RileyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331963004
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Excerpt from The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington One of the most complicated of all social problems during the past two generations has been that of the Negro in his social, economic, and civil relations in the South. Some writers have been pessimistic in their view as to the outcome. We have sometimes seen the view expressed in books by strong writers that there is no solution of the Negro question. This reminds one of Mark Twain's story. He carried forward the action of the characters up to a certain point, and suddenly dropped the task of writing. He informed the reader that the situation had become so complicated that he, the author of the story, was unable to handle it, and that he would have to turn it over to the reader to develop the story to the climax. This was excellent humor, and it is suggestive of the view some have held regarding the Providence of God in relation to the Negro. It is as if God had permitted a situation to develop which he himself could not handle successfully. The writer does not in any degree share the pessimistic view that the Negro question is insoluble. The late Booker T. Washington was one of the most remarkable characters of his generation. He is, indeed, the outstanding Negro of modern times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
