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

by Louis R. Harlan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578069289
• ISBN13: 9781578069286
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"