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Booker T. Washington : the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901
- Title
- Booker T. Washington : the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901 / Louis R. Harlan.
- Author
- Harlan, Louis R.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, [1972]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 379 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-369).
- Awards (note)
- Bancroft Prize, 1973.
- Contents
- 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.
- Volume 1. The making of a Black leader, 1856-1901 -- Volume 2. The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915.
- Call Number
- Sc B-Washington, B. (Harlan, L. Booker T. Washington)
- LCCN
- 72077499
- OCLC
- 514696
- Author
- Harlan, Louis R., author.
- Title
- Booker T. Washington : the making of a Black leader, 1856-1901 / Louis R. Harlan.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, [1972]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-369).
- Awards
- Bancroft Prize, 1973.
- Research Call Number
- Sc B-Washington, B. (Harlan, L. Booker T. Washington)