Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow (Library of African American Biography)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566638666 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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A highly recommended addition to public and college library biography shelves Midwest Book Review Written by Raymond W. Smock, the first official historian of the U.S. House of Representatives, Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow is an interpretive biography of Booker T. Washington, an African-American scientist, educator, and leader. For all his accomplishments, Booker T. Washington has been severely criticized for the compromises he was willing to make with the white South - namely, the sacrifice of civil rights of black Americans in exchange for their economic and educational improvement. Yet in the post-Civil War South, when opportu. A Great Read J. Samuel Walker This is a terrific book by a leading expert on the career of Booker T. Washington. Washington was an enormously influential and controversial figure at the beginning of the twentieth century. Smock's book is learned, engaging, and brief, which is a rare and welcome combination. He provides a balanced portrait that shows Washington's admirable qualities and his achievements in trying to promote racial justice in the United States and also gives due recogniton to the complaints of Washington's critics. Smock explains the dilemmas that faced Washington as he attempted . Very Good Book. Anthony I wanted to know more about Booker T Washington. So I previewed this book on Google books and decided to buy it. I did not know he put up his own money to fight civil rights litigations. This was one of the reasons that I purchased the book. This man accomplished so much in a horrific era for black Americans. He should be a inspiration to many people for his determination to overcome his circumstances. It's a shame many Americans don't even know who Booker T Washington is. One of the greatest Americans ever.
Was he, as later critics would charge, an Uncle Tom and a lackey of powerful white politicians and industrialists? Sifting the evidence, Mr. From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Smock's interpretive biography explores Washington's rise from slavery to a position of power and influence that no black leader had ever before achieved in American history. Thus one historian called Washington's time the "nadir of Negro life in America." Raymond W. He lived and worked
(Times Literary Supplement)A powerful survey, this is a fine choice. The book is a masterwork of concision and compacted power. General and undergraduate libraries. Washington Papers in this remarkable and concise appraisal of how the Tuskegee Wizard operated in the age of Jim Crow. (Avon Kirkland, filmmaker and author of Up From Slavery: The Triumph and Tragedy of Booker T. All this, along with an obvious, deep understanding and rare feeling for the tragic times in which Washington's turbulent career