Booker T Washington Papers Volume 5
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Author | : Booker T Washington |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1977-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252006272 |
This volume turns from emphasizing Washington's institution-building (Tuskegee Institute) to examine those writings which reveal more about the black leader's growing role as a national public figure. Volume 5 covers a period during which Washington's fortunes continued to rise even as those of the black masses, for whom he claimed to speak, declined. Though forced to adhere narrowly to the racial philosophy he had espoused in the Atlanta Compromise address of 1895, Washington nonetheless was able to involve himself covertly in matters of civil rights and politics. He used the National Negro Business League as a front for political activity. He successfully lobbied against disenfranchisement of black voters in Georgia during November, 1899. During these years Washington began behind-the-scenes civil rights activities that foreshadowed a much more elaborate ''secret life'' after the turn of the century. He worked with lawyers of the Afro-American Council to test in the courts the grandfather clause of the Louisiana constitution of 1898, raising money to pay the legal costs and swearing the other participants to secrecy. T. Thomas Fortune, the leading black journalist of the day, was Washington's close personal advisor as he sought to spread his sphere of influence from his southern base to northern cities. Also included are writings on the first convention of the National Negro Business League, Washington's address before the Southern Industrial Convention in Huntsville, Ala., and the full text of Washington's first book, The Future of the American Negro, published in December, 1899. A fascinating view of Booker T. Washington and the milieu in which he operated, Volume 5 provides further reason to call the project, as C. Vann Woodward has done, ''the single most important research enterprise now under way in the field of American black history.''''The Washington Papers continue to provide a rich load of material for social historians. Intelligently and imaginatively edited, they illuminate not only the life of Booker T. Washington but the several worlds in which he lived.''--Allan H. Spear, Journal of American History On the subject of Washington ''There is no better source to consult than Louis R. Harlan's biography and the first . . . volumes of the Washington papers.''--New York Review of Books ''A major enterprise in Black historiography.''--Times Literary Supplement
Author | : Booker T Washington |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252007712 |
The memoirs and accounts of the Black educator are presented with letters, speeches, personal documents, and other writings reflecting his life and career.
Author | : Booker T. Washington |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252015199 |
The University of Illinois Press offers online access to "The Booker T. Washington Papers," a 14-volume set published by the press. Users can search the papers, view images, and purchase the print version of the volumes. Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an African-American educator who was born a slave in Franklin County, Virginia.
Author | : Booker T Washington |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780252006500 |
The memoirs and accounts of the Black educator are presented with letters, speeches, personal documents, and other writings reflecting his life and career.
Author | : Louis R. Harlan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780252098642 |
This volume turns from emphasizing Washington's institution-building (Tuskegee Institute) to examine those writings which reveal more about the black leader's growing role as a national public figure. Volume 5 covers a period during which Washington's fortunes continued to rise even as those of the black masses, for whom he claimed to speak, declined. Though forced to adhere narrowly to the racial philosophy he had espoused in the Atlanta Compromise address of 1895, Washington nonetheless was able to involve himself covertly in matters of civil rights and politics. He used the National Negro Business League as a front for political activity. He successfully lobbied against disenfranchisement of black voters in Georgia during November, 1899. During these years Washington began behind-the-scenes civil rights activities that foreshadowed a much more elaborate "secret life" after the turn of the century. He worked with lawyers of the Afro-American Council to test in the courts the grandfather clause of the Louisiana constitution of 1898, raising money to pay the legal costs and swearing the other participants to secrecy. T. Thomas Fortune, the leading black journalist of the day, was Washington's close personal advisor as he sought to spread his sphere of influence from his southern base to northern cities. Also included are writings on the first convention of the National Negro Business League, Washington's address before the Southern Industrial Convention in Huntsville, Ala., and the full text of Washington's first book, The Future of the American Negro, published in December, 1899.
Author | : Booker T Washington |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1979-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780252007286 |
The memoirs and accounts of the Black educator are presented with letters, speeches, personal documents, and other writings reflecting his life and career.
Author | : Booker T. Washington |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252009747 |
The memoirs and accounts of the Black educator are presented with letters, speeches, personal documents, and other writings reflecting his life and career.
Author | : Booker T Washington |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252005299 |
The University of Illinois Press offers online access to "The Booker T. Washington Papers," a 14-volume set published by the press. Users can search the papers, view images, and purchase the print version of the volumes. Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an African-American educator who was born a slave in Franklin County, Virginia.
Author | : Raymond Smock |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2006-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781578069286 |
An important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington that collects Harlan's essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader
Author | : Booker T Washington |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1981-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252008009 |
The memoirs and accounts of the Black educator are presented with letters, speeches, personal documents, and other writings reflecting his life and career.