Booker T. Washington
Author
Language
English
Description
The primary voice of the African American community from 1890 to 1915, and the author of Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington was an educator and orator as well as a founder of the Alabama school that developed into Tuskegee University. Washington proposed that most African Americans would benefit from a practical trade rather than a liberal arts education-a position opposed by other black leaders, including W. E. B. Dubois, and the source of a debate...
Author
Series
The William L. Bull lectures volume 1907
Publisher
AMS Press
Pub. Date
1973]
Language
English