Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow

by Raymond W. Smock

Book Overview

From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been described as an enigma, a man who rose to prominence because he offered a compromise with the white South: he was willing to trade civil rights for economic and educational advancement. Thus one historian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566637252
• ISBN13: 9781566637251
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"