From 1890-1915, the most influential black man in America was Booker T. Washington, who less than 35 years earlier had been born into slavery.
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience
Washington proposed that most African Americans would benefit from a practical trade rather than a liberal arts education -- a position that clashed with others, including W. E. B. Dubois, and ignited an enduring debate"--
The leading African American leader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was Booker T. Washington. His conciliatory stance toward the white majority, preference for working behind the scenes...
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience [1911].
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience
The celebrated leader describes his influences and proposes that most African Americans would benefit from a practical trade rather than a liberal arts education, a position that ignited an enduring debate.
My Larger Education
In My Larger Education, Booker T. Washington explains how he came by his positions on race relations, by describing the people who influenced him during the founding of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Alabama.
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience [1911].
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