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Booker T. Washington : the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901

Title
  1. Booker T. Washington : the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901 / Louis R. Harlan.
Published by
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, [1972]
Author
  1. Harlan, Louis R.

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Description
  1. xi, 379 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Traces the African American educator's climb to fame and power from his lowly beginnings in a Virginia log cabin in 1865 to a celebrated dinner at the White House in 1901.
Subject
  1. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
  2. African Americans > Biography
  3. Enslaved persons > United States > Biography
  4. African American educators > Biography
  5. African American civil rights workers > Biography
  6. African American political activists > Biography
  7. African American politicians > Biography
Contents
  1. In the bulrushes -- Boy -- Great white father -- Unto the hills -- The burning bush -- Way down in Egypt land -- Bricks and straw -- Another part of the forest -- A family man -- Drifting -- A separate peace -- The self-made image -- The Tuskegee machine -- Master of the Tuskegee plantation -- Dark clouds and silver linings -- Dinner at the White House.
  2. Volume 1. The making of a Black leader, 1856-1901 -- Volume 2. The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915.
Call number
  1. Sc B-Washington, B. (Harlan, L. Booker T. Washington)
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-369).
Awards (note)
  1. Bancroft Prize, 1973.
Author
  1. Harlan, Louis R., author.
Title
  1. Booker T. Washington : the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901 / Louis R. Harlan.
Imprint
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, [1972]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-369).
Awards
  1. Bancroft Prize, 1973.
LCCN
  1. 72077499
Research call number
  1. Sc B-Washington, B. (Harlan, L. Booker T. Washington)
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