The Booker T. Washington Reader (an African American Heritage Book)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.01.2008
Verlag
Wilder PublicationsSeitenzahl
420
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2,3 cm
Gewicht
605 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-60459-200-9
The essential writings of Booker T. Washington reveal the remarkable life, educational philosophy, practical wisdom, and complex civil-rights strategy of one of the most influential Black leaders of his era. This substantial omnibus brings together Up from Slavery, My Larger Education, Character Building, and six historic essays examining race, education, law, political rights, and social advancement during the aftermath of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. In Up from Slavery, Washington recounts his journey from enslavement in Virginia to education at Hampton Institute and the founding of Tuskegee Institute. Both a personal autobiography and an account of collective advancement, the book describes his belief in education, skilled work, economic independence, self-discipline, and institution building as foundations for progress. My Larger Education continues Washington's story through the people, experiences, political realities, and practical lessons that shaped his leadership. He explains how he built Tuskegee, cultivated supporters, navigated racial hostility, and developed positions that made him both enormously influential and intensely controversial. Character Building collects thirty-seven addresses delivered to students, faculty, and visitors at Tuskegee Institute. These direct and encouraging talks offer timeless guidance on responsibility, perseverance, usefulness, honesty, leadership, work, and the development of personal character. The volume also includes six essays from the landmark 1903 collection The Negro Problem: "Industrial Education for the Negro" by Booker T. Washington, "The Talented Tenth" by W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Disfranchisement of the Negro" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Negro and the Law" by Wilford H. Smith, "The Characteristics of the Negro People" by H. T. Kealing, and "Representative American Negroes" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Together, they preserve a wide-ranging debate among prominent Black thinkers over education, leadership, political participation, discrimination, and the future of African American life. Washington was frequently criticized by contemporaries who believed his public approach was too accommodating toward white supremacy and insufficiently forceful on civil rights. Yet later research revealed that, behind the scenes, he helped finance legal challenges and other campaigns against racial discrimination, disfranchisement, and lynching. Bringing together autobiography, educational philosophy, motivational guidance, and historic debate, The Booker T. Washington Reader offers a broad portrait of Washington's achievements, contradictions, influence, and enduring place in African American history.
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